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Piano Girl: A Review

September 14, 2010 – 8:01 am

Although I’m not generally a non-fiction reader, Robin Meloy Goldsby’s Piano Girl–more a collection of snapshots than straight up memoir–is a bright and fascinating peek into the life of a professional piano player. Beginning with Goldby’s teenage introduction to the biz–via a job in a bar on Nantucket, where Goldsby was paid in a mixture of food, cash, and advice–we skate through her time playing venues as diverse as lounges, high end hotels, and roadside motor inns.

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The Unnamed: A Review

September 7, 2010 – 8:12 am

Joshua Ferris’ second novel, The Unnamed, is a book best read by daylight. It’s a book that has to be read piecemeal, chunked into digestible bites, partially because of the disturbing plot, partially because of the purple prose.

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Shades of Grey: A Review

April 8, 2010 – 7:22 am

There’s something compelling about a Jasper Fforde novel, something that sucks you into the story, tossing you along until the end when it finally grinds you up and spits you out before you even know what’s happened. Fforde is a true satirist, not just pulling apart the way we tell stories, but pulling apart accepted critical conventions and putting them back together again, reinterpreting criticism and analysis from the inside out.

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Crow-Skin by Peta Jinnath Andersen

April 30, 2009 – 8:15 am

He thinks I am my mother. I hear it in his voice. I feel it in the way he fingers my hair. Her hair.

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