- Return to our website.
Categories
Latest Headlines
-
How Music Works by David Byrne
Posted on January 8, 2013 | No CommentsOne would expect an idiosyncratic, personality-packed adventure through music from the quirky frontman for Talking Heads, unfortunately that is not what one gets with How Music Works. That’s not to... -
Lovestar by Andri Snaer Magnason; translated by Victoria Cribb
Posted on December 19, 2012 | No CommentsImagine a world where people communicate via birdwaves. Through great technological advances humans have been freed from wires and devices. In this cordless future, people pay off debt by HOWLING... -
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
Posted on November 30, 2012 | No CommentsWhat happens when a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard decides to write a novel? You get a spot-on, but non-clinical and excruciatingly realistic insight into what it is like to... -
The life of objects by Susanna Moore
Posted on October 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe year is 1938. Beatrice, a seventeen-year-old Irish Protestant lace maker, is whisked away from her boring and dreary life in Ireland to Berlin, where she is to become the... -
The curfew by Jesse Ball
Posted on September 20, 2012 | No CommentsWilliam was an accomplished violinist, until arts and music were denounced by the state. Now he makes his living as an “epitaphorist,” carefully, and often, bending the truth writing epitaphs.... -
I never promised you a goodie bag: a memoir of a life through events — the ones you plan and the ones you don’t by Jennifer Gilbert
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsJennifer Gilbert was a bright, pretty twenty-two-year-old woman, freshly back from a post-graduation stint in London, when she took a train into downtown Manhattan to visit a friend. Upon entering... -
Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsThis book is a real eye-opener. It will change how you shop, or at the very least how you THINK about shopping. This book goes beyond fashion, into economics, history,...