Book Reviews - Matthew Talamini

These are not proper book reviews. No pretension to the objective evaluation of literary merit. Just a few words on what I thought of the book, and what I might have learned while reading it.

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 by Hunter S Thompson

Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald

The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

The Appeal by John Grisham

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry

The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Michima

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

The Source by James Michener

Nova by Samuel Delany

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

Murder on the Orient Express

Islands in the Stream

Witchmark by C L Polk

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Slade House by David Mitchell

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Children of Blood and Bone

I Wanna Be Your Shoebox

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag

Career of Evil

A Gentleman in Moscow

The Girl on the Train

The Good Apprentice

Invisible Cities

Spinning Silver

Gilead

To Have and Have Not

Neverhome

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

The Dead Zone

The Silkworm

The Cuckoo’s Calling

The Sense of an Ending

Lincoln in the Bardo

In Our Time

Census

The White Tiger

Dear Life

Ancillary Justice

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Penric’s Demon

Humboldt’s Gift

The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales

The Third Reich

The Aleph

The Rook

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

The Long Earth

Sudden Death

The Book of Night Women

The Strange Library

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

A Far Cry from Kensington

Mr. Monster

Sons and Lovers

The Sea

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

Eldritch Tales

Bliss and Other Stories

Roughing It

Mansfield Park

Adventures in Algeria

Rose Madder

The Christ of Fish

The Goldfinch

Penric and the Shaman

Emma

Babylon’s Ashes

Swing Time

The Good Earth

The Nine Tailors

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Third Girl

My Antonia

You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine

How to Set a Fire and Why

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Death at the Bar

Artists in Crime

The Giver

Dissident Gardens

Night at the Vulcan

The Echo Maker

Death of a Peer

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Asterios Polyp

White Noise

The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark

Mad Ducks and Bears

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

An Artist of the Floating World

On Tennis: Five Essays