Miami Herald: Books
- A young woman seeks missing paintings in Nazi-occupied France in ‘Lisette’s List’
Sunday - 09/14/2014 - 12:00 AMA young woman seeks missing paintings in Nazi-occupied France.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Book review: ‘Mean Streak.’ A conk on the head leads to amazing twists
Saturday - 09/13/2014 - 08:26 PMMean Streak. Sandra Brown. Grand Central. 416 pages. $26.
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Saturday - 09/13/2014 - 08:23 PM“I just finished Claire DeWitt and The City of the Dead by Sara Gran, which I love, love, loved. It’s a mystery set in New Orleans shortly after the storm and solved by girl detective, Claire DeWitt, who applies her special method of detection which is pretty much based on yoga and Buddhism combined with the altered mind states of drugs, drink, dreams and growing up in Brooklyn.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Memoir explores truths behind forensics
Sunday - 09/07/2014 - 12:00 AMOur appetite for all things forensic is such that every few years a medical examiner or forensic anthropologist writes about what a CSI lab is really like. Some rehash celebrity cases, others analyze famous cases from history; others discuss their day-to-day experience, which utterly debunks what we see on TV.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Legendary editor’s new cookbook is for the dogs
Tuesday - 09/02/2014 - 05:54 PMMiami chefs cook recipes for their furry companions from Judith Jones’ forthcoming book.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Roxane Gay offers a biting perspective on pop culture in ‘Bad Feminist’
Friday - 08/29/2014 - 12:00 AMAuthor of ‘An Untamed State’ offers her unique (and often biting) perspective on pop culture.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Detective digs up Florida’s Civil War History in ‘Haunted’
Sunday - 08/24/2014 - 12:00 AMRandy Wayne White has built a legacy exploring Florida’s history and ecology. But an evocative look at Florida and its often-ignored role in the Civil War can’t make up for a lack of action in his third novel about Hannah Smith, a Gulf Coast fishing guide and private detective.
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Sunday - 08/24/2014 - 12:00 AM“You must read Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus! It’s the last book in Tom Angleberger’s very funny, very knowing Origami Yoda series. And the other five are just as good!”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ explores race in a fascinating context
Friday - 08/22/2014 - 12:14 PMA daring, unsparing exploration of assumptions about racial identity
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A honeybee becomes a heroine in the parable “The Bees”
Sunday - 08/17/2014 - 12:00 AMA honeybee becomes a heroine in this parable about individualism.
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- How a young America humbled the Royal Navy in ‘Give Me a Fast Ship’
Saturday - 09/13/2014 - 06:21 PMHow a young America astounded the British and became a force to be reckoned with at sea during the Revolutionary War.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A family faces quiet desperation in Queens in ‘We Are Not Ourselves’
Saturday - 09/13/2014 - 08:28 PMIt’s the little things that unpredictably shape the lives and dash the formless dreams of an ordinary New York family.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It’s the little things that count the most
Sunday - 09/07/2014 - 12:00 AMIn her first novel, Jessie Burton presents a young protagonist dealing with an unseen craftsman who seems to know her dysfunctional Amsterdam household’s tiniest secrets.
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Sunday - 09/07/2014 - 12:00 AM“I am reading White House Call Girl by Phil Stanford. It’s the definitive story of Watergate told in a noir style; strippers, mobsters, hookers, Democrats, Republicans and John Dean. It’s a great companion to my book Nixon’s Secrets.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Steve Almond considers football, our unkickable addiction
Friday - 08/29/2014 - 12:00 AMThe complex, excessive, tainted love for the game of football and its players, with all their brutality and excesses, is the focus of Steve Almond’s book. It’s an indictment, a self-excoriation and a provocative analysis of why so many Americans are hooked on this organized violence.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fundraiser supports Read to a Child
Friday - 08/29/2014 - 01:16 PMDrinking wine, eating cheese, meeting local author Brad Meltzer — and helping kids learn to love books. What’s not to like about Read to a Child’s fund-raising event, from 6 to 8 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Parents behave badly in Liane Moriarty’s ‘Big Little Lies’
Sunday - 08/24/2014 - 12:00 AMThe parents are the ones behaving badly in this story of day-to-day life in Australia.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alison Lurie’s meditations on architecture fall flat in ‘The Language of Houses’
Sunday - 08/24/2014 - 12:00 AMNovelist’s meditations on architecture and decorating are unoriginal and uninspiring.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Can Margo stop the missile crisis?
Sunday - 08/17/2014 - 12:00 AMA Cornell student becomes the conduit between Kennedy and Khrushchev in this political thriller.
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Sunday - 08/17/2014 - 12:00 AM“Right now I'm reading The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett and Your Face is Mine by Jess Row, two engaging books by two very distinct and talented writers.”
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- Past looms large in new stories from Margaret Atwood
Sunday - 09/14/2014 - 12:00 AMIn Margaret Atwood’s new collection, the past looms large for aging protagonists, but sympathy and regret abound, too.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘What Stays in Vegas’ examines data packaging and the end of privacy
Saturday - 09/13/2014 - 08:31 PMJournalist explains how data packaging makes American companies the biggest threat to privacy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A heaping helping of rock ’n’ roll stew
Sunday - 09/07/2014 - 12:00 AMJournalist/musician delivers an engaging tribute to a half-century of music.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - An unseen battle rages in David Mitchell’s genre-busting epic ‘The Bone Clocks’
Friday - 09/05/2014 - 12:00 AMAn unseen battle between good and evil rages in David Mitchell’s compelling, genre-busting epic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The events of 9/11 and its aftermath shape the lives of a Washington couple in ‘Before, During, After’
Friday - 08/29/2014 - 12:00 AMThe events of 9/11 and its aftermath shape the lives of a Washington couple.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Essays share tales of unbearable roommate
Sunday - 08/24/2014 - 12:00 AMParents across the country are filling their minivans with hope and some stuff from Target and driving their amazing kids off to college. Some of their young men and women will study business and English, while others will simply major in beer.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Michael Harris examines the pitfalls of the digital age in ‘The End of Absence’
Sunday - 08/24/2014 - 12:00 AMOn a recent panel about the creative process, several writers of a certain age were reminiscing about the Olden Days, when we penned first drafts in longhand, then moved to serial drafts on typewriters, and were thrilled with the sexy new technology of the IBM Selectric’s built-in correction tape (no more messy, smelly bottles of liquid Wite-Out!).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - National Book Award winners coming to Miami book fair
Friday - 08/22/2014 - 03:27 PMThe 2014 winners and finalists for the National Book Award, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the United States, will participate in the Miami Book Fair International this fall after the awards are announced.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Malcolm’s a new man
Sunday - 08/17/2014 - 12:00 AMLoving Rose: The Redemption of Malcolm Sinclair. Stephanie Laurens. Avon. 385 pages. $7.99 in paper.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Liberal bias permeates Rick Perlstein’s time capsule of the pre-Reagan era
Sunday - 08/17/2014 - 12:00 AMHis observations are often sharp, but liberal bias permeates author’s view of the administration.
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