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Dec 182009
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Dec 172009
Description: David Mitchell’s electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives. Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters-a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating “noncorpum” entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio deejay in New York-hurtle toward a shared destiny of astonishing impact. Like the book’s one non-human narrator, Mitchell latches onto his host characters and invades their lives with parasitic precision, making Ghostwritten a sprawling and brilliant literary relief map of the modern world. BookieMonster says: This book is one of my top ten books of all time. All time. It’s that good. Mitchell [...read more...]
The Witi round-up
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Dec 172009
I strongly recommend reading Jolisa Gracewood’s excellent round up of events regarding the Witi Ihimaera plagiarism story of late this year, on the Public Address site. Despite what Penguin and the University of Auckland may think and be trying to convey, this really was the big story of this year in New Zealand books. And I don’t think it will be readily forgotten. And please do follow Gracewood’s suggestion of other, better, options for buying New Zealand books this Christmas – especially Judith Binney.
Dec 162009
Description: The third book in the Thursday Next series. Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the ‘Well of Lost Plots’ (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled “Caversham Heights”. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday’s memory, and Miss Havisham – when not sewing up plot-holes in ‘Mill on the Floss’ – is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is ‘accidentally’ eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it … With grammasites, holesmiths, [...read more...]
Dec 152009
Description: by INXS and Anthony Bozza The real story behind INXS’s rise to fame. And how they helped define the music of a generation. INXS broke new musical ground. This Australian band, made up of three brothers and their three best mates, took the world by storm, turning rock, pop, and funk into a cutting edge, danceable style, and selling more than thirty million albums worldwide. INXS: Story to Story tells the tale of their incredible journey, from playing the world’s biggest concert venues to living a high life rivaling any in rock history, filled with sex, drugs, and supermodels. Now for the first time, they reveal everything they experienced in their more than two decades of making music — the partying, the pressure, the wild times on the road, the heights and depths of rock-star life, and the bonds of brotherhood and friendship that not only got them through [...read more...]