Thursday, June 22, 2006

Some Inquirer book reviews ...

Roger Miller looks at 'Peyton Place': Still a good yarn .

Desmond Ryan likes Max Hastings's Warriers: Portraits of wartime valor examine the befores and afters .

Marc Schogol warns readers about Richard Montanari's The Skin Gods: A Philadelphia psycho, splicing gore into film classics .

Brother Edward Sheehy finds Tom Chaffin's Sea of Gray interesting: The Rebel ship that put a postscript to the Civil War.

Also, Dawn Fallik talks to graphic novelist Alison Bechdel: A graphic artist draws on bruising memories of family

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the Fun Home link--I really, really loved that book....

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  2. No it's not you, Laurie. The Inquirer does review more books than most papers. A lot of people don't realize that, because we don't have a separate book section. But we make better use of our space, I think, and use a lot of it for book reviews.

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