Book Quote: “This was what was keeping me awake at night. This fragmentation. Because it’s the same problem everywhere. It’s like the internet, or cable TV—there’s never any center, there’s no communal agreement, there’s just a trillion little bits of distracting noise. We can never sit down and have any sustained conversation, it’s all just cheap trash and shitty development. All the real things, …  Read More →

Just a quick reminder that starting tomorrow, Mystery Books News will begin the transition to Omnimystery News . The first step will be to move the existing posts from the old template to the new one. You may see incremental changes to the overall look of the blog during this process, which we expect to begin late Saturday afternoon. The second step will be to point everything to the new domain: OmnimysteryNews.com. It may take up to 24 hours... 

Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com – The Carrie Diaries, A review of Candace Bushnell’s The Carrie Diaries.  Read More →

Power Slide by Susan Dunlap . A Darcy Lott Mystery. Counterpoint Hardcover, August 2010. Stuntwoman Darcy Lott quickly discovers that the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with — now murdered — was a man with secrets, and sets off to learn what she can about someone she really didn’t know at all, in Power Slide , the fourth mystery in this series by Susan Dunlap. Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews:... 

Reading has always been a popular pastime; new exciting authors have revitalized people’s love of the written word, and once again people are reading new and classic books. With so much to choose, and new books being released all the time, is it better to buy a book, or simply borrow one from a library?  Read More →

Upon first opening The Art of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets of Life and Death , do not fret over the chunks of text. You may initially think, “This isn’t the coffee table art book I thought it was going to be,” and then half-heartedly promise yourself that someday you’ll sit down to read the whole thing. Because, yes, there is plenty to look at–pages and pages of fantastic, humbling, inspiring, and affecting artwork–but I... 

Mr. Bourjaily’s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment.  Read More →

Is Adnan Rammaha’s Brokering IT system for real? Yes, I believe it is. I have read this ebook and it makes perfect sense to me.  Read More →

A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.  Read More →

Book Quote: “Did it really happen?” I ask. Her smile fades, her lips pressed and thin. “Oh, it happened,” she says, her voice low and alive. “Don’t let anyone tell you it didn’t. It was, it remains, genocide.” The word spills from her mouth. Book Review: Review by Jill I. Shtulman (SEP 2, 2010) With the one hundredth anniversary of the Armenian deportations only a few years away, author Mark Mustian has set himself a daunting... 

Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com – Moonlight, This book contains 2 tittles; Moonlight and Love in Glass, told about many unanswered question in ”Rainbow Troops”, especially about Maryamah Karpov.  Read More →

Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com – Under the Volcano, How alike are the cries of love and the dying. Malcolm Lowry  Read More →

We debate long and hard every month to decide what books to call best, but September (and October!) are always the heavyweights. It's all about the fiction this month, and a wide range of it too, with Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe in the spotlight. Have a look at our Best Books of the Month reviews below (including our favorite read for teens and two picks for kids) and let us know what else is on your reading list for September.  Read More →

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Fox Television has given a series commitment to an adaptation of the Locke & Key series of supernatural graphic novels by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. The third book in the series, Crown of Shadows , published this past July. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the new Hawaii Five-O on CBS, Fox’s Fringe ) are on board to executive produce. The Locke & Key comics tell the story of the Locke... 

Steven D. Levitt asks an unusual question when he writes the book Freakonomics. He asks – do the teachers have anything in common with the Sumo wrestlers? He has studied the subject economics and he also studies real life situations in a new light (based the analysis of incentives only). He also analyzes those incentives that cause us to act in  Read More →