Publisher: Random House

Book Review: Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd’s Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Book Review: Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd’s Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. This useful book that is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one.

Posted June 27, 2013 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Anne Perry’s Midnight at Marble Arch

Book Review: Anne Perry’s Midnight at Marble Arch

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: NetGalley Midnight at Marble Archby Anne Perry historical mystery in an eARC edition that was published by Ballantine Books on April 9, 2013 and has 353 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingTwenty-eighth in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Victorian mystery series. I was provided an eARC by NetGalley and Ballantine Books. My Take It’s been awhile since I’ve read this series, and I’ve recently started back up, to catch up with events because I just adore Charlotte and Thomas. Two people who hold to a sense of morality and justice no matter what. It doesn’t hurt that I enjoy reading an historical mystery! This particular story was an odd combination of melodrama, what I consider overly twisted clues — the times when everyone sat down to […]

Posted March 29, 2013 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments