NO EXPECTATIONS
GREAT EXPECTATIONS By Charles Dickens Coming to a classic novel late is good thing. There was a time when Great Expectations would have been wasted on me. But at age...
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MAD DOG COLL
MAD DOG COLL An Irish Gangster By Breandon Delap Mercier Press, Cork, 1999 I love true crime stories. Some of the earliest adult books I read as a kid were the mafia...
Read MoreA PERFECT NOVEL
A PERFECT NOVEL I was recently asked in an interview if I had read a perfect novel recently and I had, Middlemarch. Middlemarch is often considered one of the greatest...
Read MoreCLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS By Bohumil Hrabal Bohumil Hrabal’s Closely Watched Trains is a novel of World War 2, set in a small town in Czechoslovakia in 1945. The Germans...
Read MoreJOSHUA COREY: BEAUTIFUL SOUL, AN AMERICAN ELEGY
BEAUTIFUL SOUL By Joshua Corey Spuyten Duyvil, New York City, 2014 Joshua Corey is an accomplished poet, blogger, professor and literary critic. With Beautiful Soul, he...
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My book review of Howard Norman’s  NEXT LIFE MIGHT BE KINDER, a book I LOVED (the only kind of book I’ll review) is up on The Dooryard. Please check it...
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
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GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS
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SPECIMEN TANK
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