Category Archives: Reviews

How Great Is The Great Gatsby?

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

Recently the radio program Studio 360 devoted its entire hour to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby as part of its American Icons series. Various writers and scholars, including Azar Nafisi, author of the delightful Reading Lolita in Tehran, and … Continue reading →


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Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Has a Shiny!
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Posted on April 23, 2013 by
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Call it a hat trick. Call it a trifecta. Call it a coup. Book View’s own Katharine Eliska Kimbriel has scored three rapturous reviews at Shiny Book Review for her Nuala series: Fires of Nuala, Fire Sanctuary and Hidden Fires. Shiny has posted reviews … Continue reading →


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WWW Wednesday 4-17-13

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. Jennifer Stevenson here, reporting for WWW Wednesday. To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… • What are you currently reading? Uneasy Money by P.G. Wodehouse. This is a paperback Penguin edition … Continue reading →


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Padawan’s Journal #47: Snoopy Dancing at the Prom

Posted on March 13, 2013 by
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I was an ugly duckling. The oafish, bespectacled, metal?mouthed character who sat in the back of the classroom drawing Star Trek inspired comic books with talking animals and who was the last person chosen for any sports team (until I … Continue reading →


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WWW Wednesday 3-6-13

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. Hallo, all – Pati Nagle here. My turn to play WWW Wednesday. To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… • What are you currently reading? The Enchanted April by Elizabeth … Continue reading →


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WWW Wednesday 2-20-13 — Cat Kimbriel Plays!

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

BVC members have picked up this meme from shouldbereading.wordpress.com. This week, writer Cat Kimbriel talks about what she’s reading. To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… 1) What are you currently reading? 2) What did you recently finish reading? 3) What do you think you’ll read next? Continue reading →


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Book Review: Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

To celebrate Book View Café member Marie Brennan’s newest book, A Natural History of Dragons, A Memory by Lady Trent, here is a review of one of her older books, one that merits a return to the limelight. Midnight Never … Continue reading →


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Zero Dark Thirty: A Very Short Review

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

By Brenda Clough This is a fascinating and intense movie that pulls off an interesting trick.  You know how it ends — we all do, except for those of you who only just now got out of your Tibetan monastery … Continue reading →


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Raptor Red: A Very Short Review

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

By Brenda Clough I cannot resist ending our commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice by reviewing one of my most favorite versions of all time.  Raptor Red is authored by Robert T. Bakker, one … Continue reading →


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Argo: A Very Short Review

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

By Brenda Clough  Since Argo is up for some major awards, it seems worthy of mention here.  I enjoyed this movie tremendously, because I was a Foreign Service brat in that period.  I lived in crummy third-world countries while military coups went on, and was bussed … Continue reading →


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