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...
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A 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...
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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...
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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 SNOW QUEEN: BE SAFE I LOVE YOU “Because crying only gets you half way there, duh.†Be Safe I Love You By Cara Hoffman Cara Hoffman’s second novel is a coming...
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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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