Book Reviews For Everyone: Written Word

The Bone People, by Keri Hulme: Not the Greatest Beach Read, But…

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:15:25 +0000

The Bone People was selected as the book in my vacation carry-on for a couple of reasons: The great cover. Sometimes a book can be evaluated by its design, and Penguin Classics is having a heyday with their Penguin Ink series to celebrate their 75th Anniversary. You got me Penguin. You always do. All those awards. Little [...]

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3 Books I Started and Never Finished

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:12:54 +0000

There are times, unavoidably, that I pick up a book that is terrible. You’ve read about a couple of those books here (do I need to remind you of the staggering mess wrought by the burning flames of failure that is John Irving’s latest?). Then there are the books that are just so utterly awful [...]

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The Un-fun Parent, by Ian Lurie

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:39:40 +0000

Ian Lurie is good for three things. First, he knows 83% of everything to know about the internet. (If you’re thinking that 83% of everything to know is sort of high, but not high enough to write a book about internet safety, you should know that there is no one in existence that knows more than [...]

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:41:04 +0000

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7 Etsy Items to Prove You are (in fact) a Book Lover

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:07:51 +0000

For the readers out there who need to express their adoration of the written word beyond having floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, there is no better place to look than Etsy. Bedazzle your home (and yourself) with hand-crafted bookish accessories and never again be doubted of your literary love. Some of the favorites here at the Written Word are [...]

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