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Posted in Horror, Short Stories on Feb 23rd, 2009
reviewed by Rae Stabosz
This morning, for the umpteenth time, I looked on the Internet for reviews of the excellent collection of vampire stories Rivals of Dracula. I love this short story collection and want to see what others think.
But today, as usual, I found nothing. As close to Nada as it gets. A single short [...]
Posted in Short Stories on Feb 18th, 2009
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès
In her latest book, Journeys, author Celia A. Leaman takes us on an odyssey of emotions while she shares seven well-crafted, profound, and intimate stories based on real life events laced with a touch of fantasy. Contrary to her other two fiction books Who is Margaret, What is [...]
Posted in Literary Fiction, Short Stories on Sep 25th, 2008
by Tobias Wolff
reviewed by John Murphy
Our Story Begins collects new and older short-stories by Tobias Wolff, one of America’s acknowledged masters of the genre. Wolff-hounds will recognize canonical works like “Hunters in the Snow,” “Bullet in the Brain,” and “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” short-form masterpieces that have long-since established Wolff’s reputation as a top-tier [...]
Posted in Short Stories on Mar 24th, 2008
reviewed by Tannia E. Ortiz-Lopes
Island Stories is a collection of three previously published fiction stories. Some of the author’s stories and themes repeat from other publications, but the drama and the outcomes take on a different flavour and an interesting end in this humorous collection.
Ms. Leaman has the ability to convert common life situations into [...]
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Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read
By ‘Catholic Literature’ is not to be understood a literature which treats exclusively or primarily of Catholic matters, of Catholic doctrine, controversy, history, persons, or politics; but it includes all subjects of literature whatever, treated as a Catholic would treat them, and as he only can treat them.
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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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