Books: Best of 2010
Can a book bring you solace? Zachary Mason’s “The Lost Books of the Odyssey†was a comfort to me. Everything about this slender tome — its tone, its elegant paper cover — soothed me during a physically trying time earlier this year. It’s small and slender, even in hardback, so I could easily carry it
(...)Books: Trespass by Rose Tremain
Why do we give authors second chances? Once burned, why invest again? Because books, and their creators, are like lovers: we may have parted but we want to recall the initial attraction. Rose Tremain’s “The Road Home†disappointed. It was so predictable: an immigrant comes to London, sleeps in a corner, lucks into better and
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