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Book Briefs 2

As a wrap-up to 2005 and a kick-off to 2006, here’s the second of an intermittent series of book reviews in brief:

Looking for Jake, China MiĆ©ville (2005) — China MiĆ©ville is the recent king of what can only best be described as weird fiction, combining elements of horror, fantasy and science fiction in his […]

Book Review: The Number (2006)

Releasing Tuesday, Lee Eisenberg’s The Number, combines two relatively hot topics — baby boomers and blogs — in different ways.

Eisenberg’s target audience is the baby boomers who, as Newsweek and innumerable other media outlets have told us, are hitting their 60s. Eisenberg realizes that boomers are starting to think about retirement and The Number […]