Thursday Evening Book Reviews

CanadianBusiness.com reviews three books to help you get more from your healthcare, pick good stocks, and grant you nothing short of the recipe for happiness.

Dystopia as only 1952 could see it - BTC revisits Vonnegut and Pohl/Kornbluth in a compare and contrast of PIANO PLAYER and THE SPACE MERCHANTS.

Advance reviews of Andrew Davidson’s, THE GARGOYLE, are proclaiming this debut novel as the next big thing.

Anne McLean’s translation of Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s tale of Bogota, THE INFORMERS, is well-received over at The Independent.

And a trail of bread and cigarette crumbs leads one writer to a great old book.

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6 Responses to “Thursday Evening Book Reviews”

  1. William Haskins Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    congratulations on your 100th post, jamie.

  2. Jamie Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    I want a raise.

  3. William Haskins Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    fine. i’ll double… no, make that triple… your current rate.

  4. Jamie Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    About damned time. I happen to know I’m worth every bit of it.

  5. William Haskins Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    i’d quadruple it if i could.

  6. Jamie Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Aw, hell. I know that. But you and the Haskinites would grow awfully thin and pale eating styrofoam peanuts.

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