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November 22, 2009
Short cuts; Biography
The San Francisco Chronicle (California), November 22, 2009 Sunday
 Raymond Carver A Writer's Life By Carol Sklenicka Scribner; 578 pages; $35 Raymond Carver's life, as related in the exhaustive and definitive new biography by Carol Sklenicka, reads like a Raymond Car...
The long and the short of it
The San Francisco Chronicle (California), November 22, 2009 Sunday
 Raymond Carver's sometimes troubled life yielded an incredible trove of genre-busting fiction that not only stands on its own but also had an indelible influence on late-20th century literature. Carol...
November 21, 2009
Book Review: A Trick of the Light: When Conan Doyle met the first Inspector Rebus
Evening News (Edinburgh), November 21, 2009, Saturday
 A Trick of the Light, published by Polygon, GBP 9.99 THINK Edinburgh, think crime, think Rebus . . . but before Ian Rankin there was Inspector James McLevy, a policeman turned best-selling author lift...
Book Review: Truth of Fiction: The play's the thing
The Scotsman, November 21, 2009, Saturday
 Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston Headline Review, 152pp, GBP 14.99 JENNIFER Johnston is an elegant and economical writer, whose novels are always beautifully structured. The title of her new book...
Book Review: Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger: Lie of the Tiger
The Scotsman, November 21, 2009, Saturday
 Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger by Fintan O'Toole Faber, 224pp, GBP 12.99 IN THE 1980s I lived for half a dozen years in Ireland. It's an easy country to fall in love ...
Book Review: The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments: No laurels for Laura
The Scotsman, November 21, 2009, Saturday
 The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov Penguin Classics, 278pp, GBP 25 A BEAUTIFUL object, superbly bound and lovingly furnished, its title fading across the cover from left t...
A woman's tale of survival in an abyss; Book Review
The International Herald Tribune, November 21, 2009 Saturday
FULL TEXT My Prison, My Home. One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran. By Haleh Esfandiari. Illustrated. 230 pages. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $25.99; HarperPress. £16.99 In 2007, Haleh Esfandiari, ...
Book review: Under the dome by Stephen king
The Sentinel (Stoke), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 Under The Dome by Stephen King RRP: £19.99 Waterstone's Price: £12.99 IMAGINE as if you're driving along, heading out of town. But then you find that the town you're leaving - or desperate to escape ...
Lennie, Lennie Lawrence with Kevin Brennan, Green Umbrella Publishing, £14.99
York Press, November 21, 2009 Saturday
 AS A foreword from Sir Alex Ferguson suggests, well-respected is an adjective that could be permanently etched in front of Lennie Lawrence's name.
The wimpy shall inherit the Earth
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Dog Days   By Jeff Kinney   Amulet Books, 218 pages, $16.95   'You know, I should have just stuck with my original plan and stayed inside this summer, because all my trouble start...
Inside Canada's rights revolution
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 TRANSFORMING RIGHTS  Reflections from the Front Lines   By Maxwell Yalden  University of Toronto Press, 256 pages, $39.95   For 20 years, Max Yalden was a familiar figure in Canadian news, first as th...
Just wash your hands of the whole mess
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 SOAP AND WATER & COMMON SENSE   The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease  By Dr. Bonnie Henry   Anansi, 276 pages, $19.95  Looking for the perfect gift for the incorrigible ge...
What has Roth wrought?; Many of the novelist's virtuoso trademarks are present in his latest work, but he is not quite on top of his game
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 THE HUMBLING  By Philip Roth  Hamish Hamilton Canada, 140 pages, $30   Philip Roth, in his mid-70s now, is publishing a book a year. Yes, they are short - the newest, The Humbling, is 140 small pages ...
A lesson in being a head case
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 POP  By Gordon Korman   Scholastic Canada, 262 pages, $19.99   'Pop" is the sound a human body makes when it is rammed just right by 200-plus pounds of charging linebacker. At least, that is what Char...
Uncivil war
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 DEATH ON THE RIVER  By John Wilson.  Orca, 193 pages, $12.95  Good writing avoids clichés, yet a cliché lies behind good writing. "Show, don't tell" is the well-worn adage, drummed out in seminars and...
Milne redux? We say, 'Pooh!'
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 RETURN TO THE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD  By David Benedictus   Decorations by Mark Burgess   Dutton, 201 pages, $25, ages 6 to 10  Wikipedia is a treasure trove of trivia about Winnie-the-Pooh, or Winnie the ...
We have seen the enemy, and he's a huge, hairy ogre; This is not the festive horror that fills streets on Halloween
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 THE COMPLETE FAIRY TALES  By Charles Perrault.  Translated by Christopher Betts  Illustrations by Gustave Doré  Oxford University Press, 204 pages, $29.95  When I was 12, or thereabouts, I developed a...
Sarah's struggle
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 GOING ROGUE An American Life   By Sarah Palin  HarperCollins, 408 pages, $34.99   "Don't call it a comeback/ I've been here for years."   - LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out  This book came out Tuesd...
Four stories, one lovely book; Through fiction, we can understand our own mysteries
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 HOW TO PAINT A DEAD MAN  By Sarah Hall  Faber & Faber, 289 pages, $24  Dead nature is the literal translation for the term Nature morte. It does not, however, refer to some ecological disaster, but to...
PAPERBACKS
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 THE SPARE ROOM  By Helen Garner, Anansi, 195 pages, $18.95   Nicola, in treatment for late-stage cancer, moves in with her friend Helen, who becomes her nurse, protector and, inevitably, her judge. An...
I'm dreaming of the right kids' book; A holiday miscellany of reading for your youngster's holidays, selected by our children's book reviewer
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 ME AND YOU  By Geneviève Côté, Kids Can, 32 pages, $16.95, ages 3 to 5   A white rabbit with floppy, pink-tipped ears, and a fuschsia pink piglet face each other on the first double-page spread of thi...
Everybody's wild thing; Maurice Sendak's Max belongs in the pantheon of heroes who connect us, viscerally, with the propulsive energy and boundless emotional reserves of childhood
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 THE WILD THINGS  By Dave Eggers   McSweeney's, 285 pages, $24.95  For nearly half a century now, a small boy in a white wolf suit has led the charge for the uses of enchantment and the therapeutic val...
Rebel discovers her cause
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 CATCHING FIRE  The Second Book of the Hunger Games   By Suzanne Collins  Scholastic Press, 400 pages, $21.99  The middle book of a trilogy is always dicey territory. Since it is a bridge between the f...
Honest, charming, wise
The Globe and Mail (Canada), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 WALKING BACKWARD  By Catherine Austen  Orca, $9.95, 167 pages  What I love about the best children's literature is the authors' ability to surrender to their imaginations, their faith in their vision ...
Aberdeen Press and Journal
November 21, 2009 Saturday
 The Beatles: Paperback Writer, 40 years of classic writing Edited by Mike Evans Published by Plexus Publishing THERE have been many books written about the Beatles, but few take the reader as close to...
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