All Blog Posts Tagged 'fiction' (94)

Going Native

Find out what happens when a group of Canadian college students visits Wounded Knee in 1973 - http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-native.html

Added by Mark Miller on May 27, 2013 at 7:50am — No Comments

Hugh Howey Interview

Read an exclusive interview with the NY Times best-selling author on my blog: http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2013/05/hugh-howey-interview.html

Added by Mark Miller on May 24, 2013 at 11:43am — No Comments

Something to Discover

Promise of Tomorrow Volume 2: Discovery reveals some secrets here: http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2013/05/something-to-discover.html

Added by Mark Miller on May 5, 2013 at 10:27am — No Comments

Storm Prey

Published May 2010 408 pages

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

ISBN 9781101187715

From my personal library…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:54pm — No Comments

How to Talk to a Widower

Jonathan Tropper

Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc.

Published July 2007, 341 pages

ISBN 978-0-385-33891-2

From my personal library

Rating: 4 - Really liked this read

"I had a wife. Her name was Hailey. Now she's gone. And so am I."

This…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:51pm — No Comments

Sizzling Sixteen

By Janet Evanovich

Published June 2010 by St. Martin's Press

309 pages

ISBN 9780312383305

From my personal library

Rating - 4 Really liked this one

Read this in approximately 24 hours and really enjoyed it. The last couple of…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:50pm — No Comments

The Glass Rainbow

by James Lee Burke

Simon & Schuster July 2010

978-1-4391-2829-9

From my personal library

Rating: 5 of 5 - sheer perfection

Have you ever smelled the magnolias, tasted the gumbo, seen the Spanish moss strung like Christmas garlands in the live oaks, heard the rain play on a…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:46pm — No Comments

Saving Max

by Antoinette van Heugten

Mira 375 pages

978-0-7783-2963-3

Submitted by Phoenix and Phoenix

Rating 4.5

Have you ever wondered how far you would go to save your child?

Danielle Parkman is an up-and-coming litigator in a New York law firm which expects much from her. She…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:40pm — No Comments

Steplings

Coming September 2011 from Texas Christian University Press

By C.W. Smith

TCU Press 268 pg

978-0-87565-437-9

Submitted by Taylor Made Press

Rating: 4

You know when some horrible accident occurs and you can't look away? Something that commands your reluctant…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:39pm — No Comments

A Visit From the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

Anchor 352 pgs

978-0307477477

From my personal library

Rating: 5 - Sheer Perfection

Goon = Time

And in the immortal lyrics of Don McLean's American Pie: Can music save your mortal soul?

A Visit From the Goon Squad says…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:37pm — No Comments

Shadow Tag

By Louise Erdrich

Harper Perennial 272 pgs

978-0061536106

From my personal library

Rating: 4

This book is excruciating. Also spellbinding. You will be appalled by the mind games being played but you will also come to understand them. At first you won't believe that you…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:34pm — No Comments

Beast Saves the Brothers and Sisters of the Cosmic I Am

By G.W. Davies

Smashwords July 31, 2011

Submitted by the author

Rating: 3.5

Paging Tom Robbins!

Beast is a hippie drifter searching for the meaning of life. He finds that meaning in cult leaders Bo and Peep and follows them to a commune…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:25pm — No Comments

Snakewoman of Little Egypt

By: Robert Hellenga

Bloomsbury 346 pgs

978-1-60819-322-6

Submitted by Bloomsbury

Rating: 4

This book makes me want to go back to school.

Jackson Carter is an anthropology professor at Thomas Ford University in Illinois. He has returned from Africa and written a book…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:23pm — No Comments

Feast Day of Fools

By James Lee Burke

Simon and Schuster 463 pgs

978-1-4516-4311-4

From my personal library

Rating - Read This!

James Lee Burke is one of my top five authors. By my best accounting he has written 31 books. He is probably best known for the Dave Robicheaux novels that…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:21pm — No Comments

The Night Strangers

By Chris Bohjalian

Crown Publishers 378 pgs

978-0-307-39499-6

From my personal library

Rating - It'll Do and a Half

This is a weird little book. If you are familiar with Chris Bohjalian's work then this will not surprise you. He is a master at New England village life. You…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:16pm — No Comments

Shockwave

A Virgil Flowers Novel

By John Sandford

Putnam 388 pgs

978-0-399-15769-1

From my personal library

Rating: Read This Book!

Virgil Flowers is back, our favorite shitkicker detective. This is the OK Corral: not only is he after the bad guys but he's cleaning up the…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:15pm — No Comments

fathermucker

By Greg Olear

HarperCollins 312 pgs

978-0-06-205971-0

Submitted by HarperCollins

Rating: Sublime....

"Fathermucker" sounds rather suspect. I feel a touch profane when I say it. Harmless. I am a little confused but nevermind.

"Fathermucker" is the perfect…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:13pm — No Comments

Men In the Making

Stories

By Bruce Machart

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 190 pgs

978-0-15-603444-9

From my personal library

Rating: Yeah.....okay

Someone or something dies in every one of these stories; more often than not it's a person, sometimes a opossum.

Men In the…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:08pm — No Comments

Poachers

Stories

By Tom Franklin

Harper Collins, 192 pgs

0-688-17771-9

From my personal library

Rating: Read This Book!

Poachers is a collection of 11 short stories. I have gone back to my roots with this one. I "discovered" American regional short fiction 20 years ago and my favorite region is the south. It's all…

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Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 24, 2013 at 7:06pm — No Comments