Literature and Fiction

Spartacus: Swords and Ashes by J. M. Clements

2/3/2012
John Neal

J. M. Clements' novel is a complement to the first season of the gladiatorial drama on Starz. Titan Books sent me this copy for review.

Reviewer Rating: 
3.00Stars

Candace Bushnell's 'The Carrie Diaries' Book Review

12/11/2011
Jackie Morrison

Sex and the City fans have long wondered what Carrie Bradshaw was like as an adolescent. The Carrie Diaries answers those questions. Candace Bushnell brings a young adult and up novel about the formative years of a beloved iconic character. Before she landed in New York, Carrie Bradshaw was a teenage girl in New England flirting with the wild life that would soon become her calling card.

Candace Bushnell's 'Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel' Book Review

12/11/2011
Jackie Morrison

This prequel to the acclaimed Sex and the City tracks the humble start of one Carrie Bradshaw. Back when she was a newcomer to the Big Apple, before she started writing, and pre-Mr. Big or the other single ladies, Carrie was a country girl in Manhattan. Bushnell creates a younger version of her famous character and how her life was shaped by New York during the early years in the city.

'Adam's Daughters' by David Bowles

8/29/2011
Jane Squires

When I first started this book, I thought it would be dull. Not so! It has been hard to put down.

History in fiction takes one back to the 1700s. You feel like you are on an adventure. It is the actual story of Adam Mitchell's family.

Your faith will even be encouraged, and you will see God was there in that era of history too. This was an untamed land.

Indians, a freed slave, a woman who is strong and independent, war, and so much more will make you a survivor.

Please read book 1 first, and be ready to want book 3 of the Books of the Westward Sagas series.

'Lost On Treasure Island' by Steve Friedman

7/28/2011
Maria Miaoulis
A memoir of longing, love, and lousy choices in New York City

Thanks to Candace Bushnell’s beloved Carrie Bradshaw, the world knows what it’s like to be a single gal living in the Big Apple. Thanks to Steve Friedman’s candid new memoir, Lost On Treasure Island, which details his early years in the land of the quick and the mean, we now know how the other half lives.

Reviewer Rating: 
5.00Stars

'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett

7/28/2011
Karen Ruffini
Award winning novel speaks volumes about identity, change, and the will to make a difference

Author Kathryn Stockett tugs at the heartstrings of many readers with her very first novel The Help. Set in 1962, this gripping tale is about the "help"; black maids that were hired to help the pretentious and often unforgiving housewives in a rural Mississippi town. But the town's squeaky clean image is challenged when a young white woman secretly lobbies for change, ultimately risking her reputation by doing the unthinkable.

'The Choice' by Nicholas Sparks

6/11/2011

Nicholas Sparks has been a man is able to make women swarm in masses to read his novels or see films based on his them.

With successful movies like The Notebook, Dear John and Nights in Rodanthe, I am one of his fans who is ready to see another film adaption of one of his books.

At the moment, The Lucky One is in the process of production. I have read all of his novels and in my opinion, The Choice is the best one he has written. I would be the first one at the theaters to see this if it ever came to the big screen.

No, I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub

6/6/2011
Stefan Zidaru

No, I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club is an extraordinary well written novel by Virginia Ironside. The fresh style of writing and the unique views on growing old make this book stick to your hands and you find it very hard to let go. Written in a diary type of story, the subject of the book is, as the author puts it, a lesson of how to grow old disgracefully.

Melmoth the Wonderer

6/2/2011
Stefan Zidaru

Melmoth the Wonderer is a gothic genre story that approaches many important themes such as love, religion, society and compromises people make to be successful. Although the story has a slow pace kind of action, it is very good for a quiet cozy afternoon when you feel like sinking into another world. The author pays a lot of attention to details and builds up the atmosphere very slowly and gradually. Before you know it, you feel like you're living in the middle of the events.

'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce

5/22/2011
Victoria Meng
There is arguably no book in the English language which better depicts a person’s personal and artistic self-actualization.

There are authors who write with needless complexity because they mistake vagueness for depth…and then there are authors like James Joyce.

Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a book about a boy growing up in late 19th-century Ireland, has impressed writers and confounded high-schoolers for more than a century. It employs a heavy stream-of-consciousness format where young Stephen Dedalus’ thoughts are often splintered and disjointed.

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