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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
The brutally heartbreaking, wonderfully uplifting followup to The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini's follow-up to The Kite Runner is every bit as heartbreaking and breathtaking as Margaret Atwood's feminist dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Except more so, since it's grounded in the real, horrible, beautiful world. A Thousand Splendid Suns concerns the lives of two Afghani women trapped in a system that always seems to ...
The Geography of Bliss
Review by Karrie Higgins, eMusic
Pursuing the secret to happiness across the planet
As a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, Eric Weiner covered mostly depressing places and stories — bubonic plague in India, the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. After all, as he confesses, misery makes for riveting radio. Listeners demand hard news, which usually entails body counts, poverty, famine or disease. But ev...
The Book of General Ignorance
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
A serpentine collection of wild trivia tailor-made for iPod shuffle
Cats are cool and all, but — as the Johns Lloyd and Mitchinson point out in this serpentine collection of wild trivia — persistent curiosity is a distinctly human trait. "Moths and aardvarks don't look up at the night sky and wonder what the twinkly bits are. People do." From there The Book of General Ignorance grand-marshals a parade of h...
Coraline
Review by Claire Zulkey, eMusic
The best kind of children's book — the kind you'll want to read when they're finished
The best children's stories appeal to readers of all ages, and with that criteria, Neil Gaiman's Coraline is a story that can be passed up through generations as well as down. Coraline Jones is a bored, creative little girl living with her too-preoccupied parents in an apartment building outside London, shared with two dotty fo...
Breakfast of Champions
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
The great American satirist took his parting shots during the intermission. Kurt Vonnegut was not a linear guy. He was always blurting out his denouements in the opening pages, imagining his characters as complete family trees and claiming everything that ever happened is all happening at the same time. So it makes sense that he wrote Breakfast of Champions, a novel that would work so well as a grand finale, in the mi...
Lucky Man
Review by Karrie Higgins, eMusic
Michael J. Fox reveals himself as a courageous and indefatigable optimist
If you were alive in America during the 1980s, chances are you tuned in religiously to laugh at Michael J. Fox's antics as the infuriatingly lovable, Nixon-worshiping Alex P. Keaton in the hit sitcom Family Ties. And if you were a teen girl, it is a pretty good bet that you also tacked up Tiger Beat posters of Fox on your bedroom walls. When F...
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Authors as Narrators
Great authors bare their souls in the pages of books, but the bravest writers go a step further and read their words aloud. When authors narrate their own audiobooks they instantly add a level of intimacy to their work and they can even help their audience to uncover new layers of meaning in the text. The books below encompass a variety of genres and topics, but they all contain a personal touch that is sure to make li...
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eMusic Q&A: Haven Kimmel
Readers of Haven Kimmel's bestselling memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, already know how brilliantly her work straddles the line between tender coming-of-age narrative and full on kook-out. Kimmel's novels Iodine and Something Rising (Light and Swift) also defy stereotypes in all of the best ways. They are stories of Midwestern life as gothic as those of Flannery O'Connor; chronicles of the domestic spheres of home, hearth...
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