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Reviewing CAREER OF EVIL by Robert Galbraith A reflection on J.K. Rowling's talent as a mystery writer

“When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible–and Strike knows that any one of them is […]

By |2024-01-06T22:08:33+00:00|Book Reviews|Comments Off on Reviewing CAREER OF EVIL by Robert Galbraith A reflection on J.K. Rowling's talent as a mystery writer
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Reviewing HOSTILE WITNESS by Rebecca Forster A reminder of why characterization still matters in mystery suspense

“When sixteen-year-old Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of her stepgrandfather, the chief justice of the California Supreme court, her distraught mother turns to her old college roommate, Josie Baylor-Bates, for help. Josie, once a hot-shot criminal defense attorney, left the fast track behind for a small practice in Hermosa Beach, California. But Hannah […]

By |2024-01-06T22:27:02+00:00|Book Reviews|Comments Off on Reviewing HOSTILE WITNESS by Rebecca Forster A reminder of why characterization still matters in mystery suspense
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Characterization and the Film Adaptation of Jack Reacher

[by Ross Browne]

Can an inherent limitation in the medium of film compel Lee Child to take a seminal character in contemporary fiction to a whole new level?

I remember it like it was yesterday, the conflicting moment during a hotly contested game of Scrabble when I learned that there was finally going to be a movie made […]

By |2024-01-06T22:29:58+00:00October 22nd, 2015|Going Hollywood|Comments Off on Characterization and the Film Adaptation of Jack Reacher
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One Editor’s Love/Hate Relationship with Freedom (By Jonathan Franzen) A review from Editorial Department President Ross Browne

“In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys […]

By |2025-02-11T21:12:14+00:00|Book Reviews|Comments Off on One Editor’s Love/Hate Relationship with Freedom (By Jonathan Franzen) A review from Editorial Department President Ross Browne
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Twilight, A “First 50” Review A review of the first 50 pages of Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

The first 50 pages of Twilight make for what I would call a mildly interesting read.

The novel opens with a preface of a half page in which an unnamed narrator writing in the first person contemplates the fact that she’s about to die, presumably at the hand of an also-unnamed ‘hunter.’ What’s interesting here is that the narrator doesn’t […]

By |2024-01-06T22:40:15+00:00|Book Reviews|Comments Off on Twilight, A “First 50” Review A review of the first 50 pages of Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
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