Nikos Kazantzakis is probably best known for his novel Zorba the Greek, which was made into an award-winning film starring Anthony Quinn in 1964. Yet, Kazantzakis is also infamous for The Last Temptation of Christ, a novel so provocative that it was placed on the Vatican’s Codex of Forbidden Books in 1954. For this novel and for some of his other works, Kazantzakis was nearly excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox Church and was denied a Christian burial in Greece when he died in 1957, although […]
Lots of Lies
When Will leaves for a conference in Orlando and a plane heading towards Seattle goes down, his wife Iris feels badly for her students, friends and colleagues who might’ve known someone on the flight. She does her best as a school counselor to help everyone she can. However, when she gets the call her that her husband has died on that flight and that there was no conference scheduled in Orlando, what she knows about her husband and what the truth is are two very […]
An OK read but I recommend checking out Bobby Dollar instead
With cigarette smoke rising from under a fedora, the murky cityscape in the background, and the scarlet feathered wings, The cover of Something More than Night screams angelic noir mystery. From 2012 to 2014 I read Tad William’s excellent Bobby Dollar trilogy that kicks off with The Dirty Streets of Heaven. Bobby Dollar is the nickname of the angel Doloriel and the series is a mash up of noir mystery, urban fantasy, and angels. Something More than Night came out in 2013, the same year as the second Bobby Dollar […]
I will solve you.
This is a melancholy little book about what it means to live almost forever. Think “Interview with a Vampire” without vampires. Tom Hazard, a man of many names and times, is over 400 years old. Tom is not immortal but ages VERY slowly. The explanation for this is some kind of genetic thing that kicks in at puberty, physically aging those with the gene around 10 years for every 100. The obvious things occur here: watching loved ones age and die, constantly moving and changing identities initially to avoid superstitious village […]
To the reference shelf with you
Some books seem like they were written with you in mind. I look at this cover and read the title, with words like fate, chance, and evolution, and I think this is exactly up my alley. And. . .it kind of is. No matter how hard I tried, though, I simply did not love this book. Jonathan Losos isn’t a bad writer, but I think at times he is too close to his own studies to know where to edit them down for the casual […]
To love, honor and obey. . .
Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage is at its heart an exploration of loyalty, of marriage and of love. Jones writes in such a sublime way it is hard not to get utterly lost in her world, to let her characters dictate when you eat, sleep and breathe. An American Marriage is the story of Celestial and Roy; the embodiment of an upwardly mobile couple, as the cover tells us, the American dream. The opening chapters of Jones’ narrative lay out the state of our protagonists […]
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