Book Review: ‘The Rosie Effect’ by Graeme Simsion

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It was the debut novel that caught the attention of Bill Gates, who described The Rosie Project as ‘funny and profound’. As it spiralled into literary stardom, The Rosie Project found a place in our hearts.

As a rather obvious but nevertheless apt choice for a sequel, titled The Rosie Effect, Graeme Simsion revisits the lives of newlyweds Don and Rosie, who are now living in New York and working in the medical department of Columbia University.

You can read a review of the book by following this link: http://writersedit.com/rosie-effect-graeme-simsion-review/

17 Books That Should Be On Your Radar: March 2017

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Every month, the Writer’s Bone crew reviews or previews books they’ve read or want to read. This series may or may not also serve as a confessional for guilty pleasures and hipster novels only the brave would attempt. Here are their recommendations for March 2017:

Via http://www.writersbone.com/book-recommendations/2017/3/5/17-books-that-should-be-on-your-radar-march-2017

16 Books that Should be on your Radar: February 2017

Every month, the Writer’s Bone crew reviews or previews books we’ve read or want to read. This series may or may not also serve as a confessional for guilty pleasures and hipster novels only the brave would attempt. Here are their recommendations for February 2017:

Via http://www.writersbone.com/book-recommendations/2017/2/1/16-books-that-should-be-on-your-radar-february-2017

17 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read in a Sitting | Electric Literature

This week author Ian McEwan expressed his love of short novels, saying “very few [long] novels earn their length.” Certainly it seems like a novel has to be a minimum of 500 pages to win a major literary award these days, and many genre novels have ballooned to absurd sizes.

I’ve tried to avoid the most obvious titles that are regularly assigned in school (The Stranger, Heart of Darkness, Mrs Dalloway, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein, The Crying of Lot 49, etc.). Hopefully you’ll find some titles here you haven’t read before.

Via https://electricliterature.com/17-brilliant-short-novels-you-can-read-in-a-sitting-a809de5a1046#.tnjd4ejda

11 Books That Should Be On Your Radar: December 2016 | Writer’s Bone

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Every month, the Writer’s Bone crew reviews or previews books we’ve read or want to read. This series may or may not also serve as a confessional for guilty pleasures and hipster novels only the brave would attempt. Here are their December 2016 recommendations…

Via http://www.writersbone.com/book-recommendations/2016/12/1/11-books-that-should-be-on-your-radar-december-2016

Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries – Guest Post from Author Joylene Nowell Butler | The Book’s the Thing

A murder enveloped in pain and mystery… When Canada’s retired Minister of National Defense, Leland Warner, is murdered in his home, the case is handed to Corporal Danny Killian, an aboriginal man tortured by his wife’s unsolved murder. The suspect, 60-year-old Sally Warner, still grieves for the loss of her two sons, dead in a suicide/murder eighteen months earlier…

via Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries – Guest Post from Author Joylene Nowell Butler — The Book’s the Thing

Book review: Maria Semple is back with another loopy, darkly comic novel – The Denver Post

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Eleanor is chronically disappointed in herself, in her versions of wife- and motherhood; in her degrees of kindness, friendship, organization, pet ownership and yoga attendance. She is a graphic artist the way Bernadette of Semple’s genius second novel was an architect: in the past, with baggage and regrets…

via Book review: Maria Semple is back with another loopy, darkly comic novel – The Denver Post