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The Round House

21 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction

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The Round House by Louise Erdrich

The Round House is the latest novel by one of my favourite American authors, Louise Erdrich. You can read my review at For Books’ Sake.

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The Cutting Season

20 Thursday Sep 2012

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My review of The Cutting Season, crime writer Attica Locke’s new novel, set on a former slave plantation in Louisiana, is posted today at For Books’ Sake.

‘Black Dahlia and White Rose’

27 Monday Jun 2011

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, History, Marilyn Monroe

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Black Dahlia, Crime Fiction, E-Books, Joyce Carol Oates, L.A. Noire, Marilyn Monroe

L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories

L.A. Noire is styled like a detective movie of the 1940s. Aesthetically, it pays homage to film noir, while adapting new technologies like real-time action and multiple camera angles. Set in post-war Los Angeles, it also features a jazz soundtrack. Publication of an e-book of eight short stories by some of the world’s leading writers – in genres ranging from literary to pulp fiction – was announced in May. Each piece is set in 1947, the same year that casino owner Bugsy Siegel  and Elizabeth Short (‘The Black Dahlia’) were murdered. Continue reading →

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