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Posted in Action/Adventure, Historical, Latest on Jan 5th, 2009
Reviewed by John Murphy
There are a lot of things I could say about City of Thieves. I might comment on its gritty evocation of a specific time and place (1942 Leningrad under Nazi siege), its likable characters, gallows humor, or its sturdy plot. The salient point is this: I stayed up half the night finishing [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure on Dec 2nd, 2008
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopes
In his debut novel, The Sacred Bones, author Michael Byrnes brings us a fascinating mix of myths, legends, and themes of today in a controversial story full of intrigue, conspiracy, murder, modern technology, and religion–the perfect combination for a breathtaking story.
The book opens with the story of the Knights of the Temple and [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Fantasy on Apr 2nd, 2008
reviewed by John Murphy
Neverwhere is an entertaining dark fantasy from celebrated writer, Neil Gaiman. The wild and whirling world he creates from the material of urban London — where unsuspecting folks can fall “between the cracks” and end up in the surreal London Below — owes a debt to GK Chesterton’s delightful and outlandish The [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Classics on Mar 5th, 2008
reviewed by John Murphy
Anthony Hope’s Prisoner of Zenda is a classic swashbuckler in the fun-loving tradition of Rafael Sabatini (Captain Blood, Scaramouche). The book’s enduring success has led to several stage and screen adaptations, including a popular version from 1937 starring Ronald Colman.
It’s easy to see why Prisoner has captured so many imaginations. Hope, in [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Political, Suspense/Thriller on Jan 29th, 2008
reviewed by John Murphy
The Colour of Blood is a tight, page-turning Catholic thriller in the Graham Greene tradition. The opening sequence hits the ground running: Cardinal Bem, head of the Church in an unnamed Soviet bloc country, is being chauffered back to his residence when
“He saw, peripherally, a black car racing very close to his. [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Children, Fantasy, Young Adult on Dec 7th, 2007
reviewed by John Murphy
I was a pimply teenager when Star Wars: the Phantom Menace came out in the summer of 1999. Two of my siblings and I skipped class on a Monday morning to attend the first showing. After the movie was over, as we walked out of the theater into the mid-afternoon glare, I [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Classics on Oct 13th, 2007
reviewed by Rachel Murphy
In the fictional South American Republic of Costaguana, the small town of Sulaco is sheltered from the rest of the state by mountain and plain—near the edge of the sombre Gulfo Plácido whose still waters are protected from the ocean gusts—“as if within an enormous semicircular and unroofed temple open to the [...]
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Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read
A modern literary intellectual lives and writes in constant dread–not, indeed, of public opinion in the wider sense, but of public opinion within his own group.
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: Dawn, I found a French translation with Mauriac's intro, presumably also in French, but know of no English versions. (See; http://tinyurl.com/qbv3qn )
: I am trying to find the edition of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory that has an intro by Francois Mauriac. Can you help? [...]
: GREAT SITE! I only just found it because I have a guy who asked me to read The Shack. Too, bad he really loved it [...]
: Thanks for the tip, Costance. We'll check her out.
: Ya'll have an amazing site here, but you should read Carmen Marcoux's books and list them, because they are fabulous, and Catholic.
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