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'Angel Time’ Author: Anne Rice Data: Alfred A. Knopf, 274 pages, $25.95 Review by AMANDA TEW The Times-Union “Angel Time” was my first step into the literary world of Anne Rice. Sure, I wanted to borrow her infamous vampire novels from the library when I was younger, but my parents always objected. read more
Love, lust, fear, betrayal and death: Egypt's Nobel laureate dreamt them, too.
Ian Blair's time as Britain's top policeman was filled with controversy, but don't expect enlightenment here, says Andrew Anthony In times gone by, the standard police memoir involved Inspector Knacker of the Yard reminiscing about his arrest of Jimmy "the Slag" Butcher outside the Dead Ferret in Soho. Now it's more likely to be a summary of employment tribunals, racism accusations and office ...
Lanette Gruits-Sheppard of Centerpoint knew God's protection personally before she ever wrote a book about it.
Anthony Horowitz -- 54, dark-haired, dynamic, funny, and just now, slightly manic -- is good at entertaining boys. In his books, yes, but also in his book talks, which he does a lot of and works hard at, because to be a mass-market children's author these days, you have to be also a bit of a...
Review by Juanita Sherwood “In a Perfect World” is a timely novel. We should hope that it is not prophetic.
Local author Kay Stephen will discuss her book, "Holiday Etiquette.”
After retiring from almost three decades of teaching, Jeannie Thompson was ready for new pursuits.
Americans this year will spend $45 billion on veterinary antidepressants, canine hip replacements and doggie spa days. Pet spending has nearly tripled in 15 years, with dogs taking up the lion's share.
Strange things happen when a book series sells 70 million copies. Fan sites are built, only to crash with onslaughts of visitors. Movies are made, drawing unruly mobs of screaming fans. Entire towns are invaded by giggling, teenage girls.
The nearly 700 pages of "The Children's Book" hold a richly imagined, complex narrative spanning a quarter century. A.S. Byatt sets an imposing cast of characters against an England first Victorian, then Edwardian and finally in the throes of the Great War during the Battle of the Somme.
He may be one of the most widely read authors in history, but there will always be two types of "constant readers" in Stephen King's large group of fans: those who read everything he writes, and those who, like one critic who referred to the 1,100- plus-page novel "It" as a book of "unconscionable length," will blanch at even the thought of hauling such a monster around.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- "U Is for Undertow" (A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 403 pages, $27.95) by Sue Grafton: Can it really be 27 years since Kinsey Millhone sifted through clues in "A Is for Alibi?"
Paul Auster's latest suffers from a surfeit of clashing voices and lack of credible characters, says Edward Docx Paul Auster is a writer with many skills: a disarming directness of style, a subtle ability to render subtle psychology, a connoisseur's feel for the novel form – its limits and its play – and much besides. Invisible is the story of Adam Walker who, while a student at Columbia ...
Alaska shaped Sarah Palin – but her understanding of anything that goes on beyond the frontier state is alarmingly uninformed, says Patricia Williams Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's memoir needs recipes in the worst way. Admittedly, that's an absurd hook for a book that's supposedly about politics, but Going Rogue uses food, food and more food to create scenes of familial warmth and Mama ...
Less would have been more in Stephen King's latest, says a weary Euan Ferguson Under the Cosh, this may as well have been called, which is perhaps a little unfair, but you didn't have to speed-read it inside a week. It's not that this is a bad book. It is, in many ways, a good book: King's take on the America of Bush and 9/11, a nation on the verge of environmental and moral collapse. But it is ...
