Recently added articles from Bookmarks:
Letter from the editor.(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2009; ... When I discover a new writer I like, I have to stop myself from reading all of his or her work right away. If I don't, I find it's easy to conflate plots and characters, or the writing style that initially seemed so compelling grows tiresome. It's a bit like ordering another round of ...
Pardon the interruption.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Before we get to another wonderful round of books-we-didn't-finish letters (misery does love company), I hope you don't mind a brief commercial. This is my last chance to ask you to consider giving Bookmarks subscriptions as gifts for the upcoming holidays. The most common phrase I hear ...
More books we didn't finish.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Oh, I feel vindicated! I loved all these letters, and so many of those failed books resounded with me. The big one, though, was The Lovely Bones. I couldn't stand it. At the time, I was one of the Elle magazine reviewers, and I'm afraid my review was the lone negative. I wondered about ...
Bookmarks selections: staff favorites from among the most highly rated books in this issue.(Recommended readings)
Nov 01, 2009 ... LITERARY Page 41 ***** Love and Summer By William Trevor In provincial Ireland in the 1950s, a young housewife carries on an affair. Boston Globe "No one writes with such clarity, subtlety, grace, and precision." ...
Coming soon: upcoming books worthy of your attention.(Recommended readings)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Literary Fiction Last Night in Twisted River | JOHN IRVING: In New Hampshire, a 12-year-old boy shoots the town constable's girlfriend, thinking she was a bear. He and his father become fugitives as the constable feverishly tracks them. Irving tells the story of the boy's life ...