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Short Book Review: History Of The Italian People by Giuliano Procacci
SBR: I picked up this book in anticipation of our Italy trip. Apparently, among all the book recommendations Abhaya could find…
Short Book Review: The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
SBR: The prolog, along with with the first sentence of the first chapter, seems to give away the story of this…
Short Book Review: Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee
SBR: Dusklands' language is beautiful to the extent that it can be hard to read sometimes. But the darkness explored…
Short Book Review: Three Daughters by Consuelo Saah Baehr
SBR: Three Daughters is interesting in the beginning. Set at the turn of 20th century in a Christian village near…
Short Book Review: A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
SBR: A Crime in the Neighborhood has a story that promises revelations, but ends up being the tale of a…
Short Book Review: The Second Girl by David Swinson
SBR: The Second Girl is an interesting piece of crime fiction featuring a closeted drug-addict ex-cop as the private investigator.…
Short Book Review: The Prisoner by Omar Shahid Hamid
SBR: The Prisoner is completely different from another book by similar name I have read and reviewed. This one is a…
Short Book Review: The Greatest Bengali Stories Even Told by Arunava Sinha
SBR: Arunava Sinha is a terrific and prolific translator of Bengali literature. So if there is a translation of Bengali stories…
Short Book Review: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
SBR: We are talking about the first three novels of the Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin. My fantasy…
Short Book Review: I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh
SBR: I Let You Go is a fairly well-received crime-suspense novel, which didn't work for me. The suspense was maintained…