by Eduardo Brethauer | Aug 12, 2020 | Books
Dark Sacred Night (Michael Connelly) Connelly has become the pampered of the critics. His noir novels, narrated by the depressive (and sometimes depressing) detective Harry Bosch are a vice. In this latest release, Renée Ballard discovers the retired Bosch rummaging...
by Eduardo Brethauer | Aug 12, 2020 | Books
Killing Commendatore (Haruki Murakami) Murakami provokes more hysteria than Rowling and Harry Potter. His new publication is not a book, but a 2,000-page brick divided into two volumes (Emerging Ideas and Mobile Metaphor), which begins when I (he), newly separated,...
by Eduardo Brethauer | Aug 12, 2020 | Books
Instrumental (James Rhodes) The famous pianist James Rhodes descended into hell to miraculously resurrect. “Classical music saved my life,” he writes, after suffering a childhood where he was raped for years by a teacher. Drugs, suicide attempts and a son...
by Eduardo Brethauer | Jul 22, 2020 | Books
Asimmetry (Lisa Halliday) This novel explores the inequities that (un) balance human relationships, such as differences in age, talent, wealth, fame, and power. These are particular stories, including Folly, the relationship between a young editor and the mature...
by Eduardo Brethauer | Jan 22, 2020 | Books
Blackfish City (Sam J. Miller) In a city in the Arctic called Qaanaaq, governed by the machinery of organized crime and corrupt politicians, Sam J. Miller builds a wild story. With empowered women, many LGBTQ characters and new concepts such as nano bonding (you do...
by Eduardo Brethauer | Nov 22, 2019 | Books
The Woman in the Window (A.J. Finn) This thriller tells the story of Anna Fox, a lonely girl who entertains herself watching old movies, drinking wine, lots of wine, and spying on her neighbors. Unfortunately, one day she sees through the window something she should...