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The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson

By Ele Munjeli ⋅ November 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When I say I liked it, that doesn’t necessarily mean it was a good book. It was just a good read, at the right time, and had some redeeming qualities. Like the first book in the trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire is an intentional blockbuster. It reads like a screenplay (and immediately became [...]

An Interview with David Liss

By Ele Munjeli ⋅ October 22, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

David Liss is the author of several books, including The Devil’s Company, a mystery that explores the origins of the modern corporation in the 1700s in London. Despite it’s abysmal tally of views on YouTube, I found this interview from May 22, 2009 interesting. Liss has an education in finance, and it informs his work [...]

The Devil’s Company, by David Liss

By Ele Munjeli ⋅ October 19, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Set in London in the year 1722, the scenery might be the point of the novel; yet, David Liss manages to create memorable and individual characters that actually carry the day. Our hero, a retired boxer of Portugese-Jewish ancestry, is also a master of disguise and a wry wit. His sidekick is a lounge lizard [...]

Alexandria, by Lindsey Davis

By Ele Munjeli ⋅ September 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Something different. It has been awhile since I read a mystery, but I have always enjoyed them, working my way through Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle when I was still a child. I was lured to read the work of Lindsey Davis by a review at Barnes and Noble. Her work is set in [...]

The Affinity Bridge, by George Mann

By Ele Munjeli ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Back to Sci-fi: author Hari Kunzru, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, made a comment about the regression of entertainment to a Dickensonian mode, with those complexities and grotesques of character. The fluffy frosting of that would be Steampunk, with its anxious mix of industrial revolution, frightful electricity, and optimistic scientists. The Affinity [...]

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