Book Review: The Tin Roof Blowdown (International Herald Tribune)
Posted on 26 July 2007 by admin
In his latest novel James Lee Burke bears witness to “all the events that had turned a gingerbread Caribbean city into food for every kind of jackal in the book”: the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Few writers are as expertly equipped for this task. Burke has long celebrated the rollicking joys of New Orleans, a city he has described as “the Great Whore of Babylon” in homage to its wild side. He …
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BOOK REVIEW: The boy wizard takes his final bow (The Charlotte Observer)
In the end, no one plays Quidditch. That’s about the only spoiler I’m willing to reveal about the final chapter in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” Book 7 and the close of J.K. Rowling’s wonderfully entertaining series. If the review seems a little vague as a result, well, tough. I’m not ruining this for fans who have waited 10 years to learn the outcome of the final showdown between the …
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