Tag: book reviews
group name: mnreaders
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June 30, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
Gather Personality Rhetta A not only read one of my books, but took the time to write a review for Gather about it, so go give her a 10:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977385456#comments . . .
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October 11, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Indian writer Kiran Desai, who at the age of 35 has become the youngest woman ever to win Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, Wednesday recalled her parent's efforts . . .
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October 17, 2006 02:40 PM EDT --
Anyone else here sick of this untalented maudlin writer's treacly book being hawked all over the margins of Gather? His writing is as cloying as a Hallmark commericial and to boot he was busted for . . .
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November 27, 2006 02:54 PM EST --
I'm a huge book dork and so I'm always eager to see what books I have read that made the NYTimes Notable books list. Last year I had read quite a few on the list, but this year I've only read four . . .
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June 21, 2006 08:30 AM EDT --
Bruce Henricksen's "The Zero Club" made me think about how literary writers are received in my own region. Duluth MN has some authors to be proud of. Connie Wanek and Barton Sutter are poets . . .
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October 03, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
I've been indulging myself recently, reading books written by Gather members: Damian McNicholl's A Son Called Gabriel, Moya Goatley's Basket of Rain, and Brazil, the spectacular historical . . .
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April 19, 2009 01:12 PM EDT --
Hi. This is Brett Ortler, I'm a co-editor and co-founder of Knockout Literary Magazine . we just released the second issue of our print magazine ( www.knockoutlit.org ), and we've also branched . . .
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December 30, 2007 05:49 AM EST --
When Collins.gather.com offered its members a chance to review this wonderful book, The Ultimate Tea Diet , by Dr. Tea, aka Mark Urka, I jumped at the chance. I had read about several different studies . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
For months I counted down the days until Ann Patchett's newest book Run arrived in my mailbox. When it arrived I immediately set aside what I was doing and lost myself in the joy of her story-telling. . . .
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August 26, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago, when I was browsing through the shelves at the Dudley Library, looking and hoping I’d find one or two titles by Dambudzo Marechera, I came across The Gospel According to the Son. . . .
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September 23, 2009 04:10 PM EDT --
With our younger children back in the classroom during the day and our college-age children perhaps even further away than that, the time is right for (finally) finishing that book or starting a new one. . . .
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October 28, 2006 02:56 PM EDT --
Has anyone ever read Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. It is my all-time favorite work of nonfiction. It's absolutely breath-taking in its breadth and detailed discussion of religion, Mormonism, . . .
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June 23, 2008 05:56 PM EDT --
After reading The Gargoyle several weeks ago, my first thought was that nothing could possibly top it. After 44 years of reading anything I could get my hands on, including Moby-Dick . . .
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July 12, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
this blog is also available on www.gretchenleebourquin.com/blog
My head is spinning as I try to think of ways to promote my novel No Sensible People , my poetry collection The Long and Short . . .
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December 14, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
A while back I submitted No Sensible People to a website called Nothing Binding for a book review. You register for the site, give your book information, and wait for someone to contact you. The . . .
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October 18, 2006 12:31 PM EDT --
In author and Vanity Fair editor, Seth Mnookin's, ode to the Boston Red Sox, Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top, you will find much more than you bargained for! . . .
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July 19, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
In my quest to support books that might otherwise not get enough attention I am building a book review magazine on my website call The Mixed Bag Review . It is an online magazine featuring book reviews . . .
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July 10, 2008 12:02 AM EDT --
Press Release
Fisher King Press announced:
Available July 15th, 2008
Enemy, Cripple & Beggar: Shadows in the Hero's Path By Erel Shalit
In Enemy, Cripple, & Beggar . . .
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September 06, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
Here’s to the independents, to those who thumb their noses to globalization and a homogenous society, to those who refuse to succumb to the brave new world!
Buying the work of an artist is a symbolic . . .
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November 24, 2009 01:42 PM EST --
‘ A Touch of Dead ’ is some sort of literary lesson, but I don’t know quite what it is. Charlaine Harris is practically a household name thanks to the way the television . . .
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