Read This! Part 5

by toby8897 on November 11, 2012

Here is the fifth and final part of my book recommendations: Martin Cruz Smith   Gorky Park (all of the Arkady Renko books are really good) Ralph Steadman   Ralph Steadman’s Jelly Book Peter Straub   Ghost Story Donna Tartt   The Secret History Ross Thomas   Chinaman’s Chance Scott Turow   Presumed Innocent David Foster Wallace   A Supposedly Fun Thing [...]

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Read This! Part 4

by toby8897 on October 30, 2012

Here’s part four of my book recommendations: Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies George R.R. Martin Game of Thrones Val McDermid A Place of Execution China Mieville The City and the City David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet Tim O’Brien In the Lake of the Woods Edgar Allen [...]

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Read This! Part 3

October 14, 2012

Here’s part three of my book recommendations: Tony Horwitz A Voyage Long and Strange Jeffrey Household Rogue Male Bill James Panicking Ralph John Krakauer Under the Banner of Heaven John LeCarre Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Smiley’s People Elmore Leonard Split Images (he is incredibly consistent – it’s hard to go wrong) Michael Lewis The Big [...]

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Read This! Part 2

October 7, 2012

Here is the second installment of my list of book recommendations: James Ellroy   L.A. Confidential Justin Evans   A Good and Happy Child F. Scott Fitzgerald   The Great Gatsby Gillian Flynn   Gone Girl Frederick Forsythe   The Day of the Jackal Robert Graves   I, Claudius Michael Gruber   Tropic of Night (all of the Jimmy Paz novels are [...]

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Read This!

September 30, 2012

My friend Liberty contributed a list of 50 book recommendations to a book called Read This!, which contains book recommendations from a number of indie bookstore folks. It’s pretty cool. I’ve gone through and checked off books that I’ve read and marked some that I want to read or at least learn more about. With that in [...]

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Foreign Editions

September 23, 2012

It’s been a long since I’ve posted. I’ve really been focused on writing my next book, which is not part of the City trilogy, but something more contemporary. The third book in the City trilogy has been written, but I’m not sure about when it will be published. Anyway, I’ll keep the blog up to date [...]

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New Reviews

October 17, 2011

Scorch City has received two great reviews recently, pasted below. Library Journal: When they accept the midnight request to move the body of an emaciated blonde from the riverbank near the Uhuru Community, journeyman reporter Frank Frings and analytical police lieutenant Piet Westermann put themselves in the middle of a tense clash between violent racists [...]

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Dreaming in Black and White

August 25, 2011

I was going to write a post along the lines of “the soundtrack for Scorch City,” meaning, I guess, music that would make a good accompaniment to reading the book. I gave this a little bit of thought and eventually asked myself why the hell would you want accompanying music for a book? This started [...]

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Still more book covers

August 15, 2011

Last summer I took some photos of book covers found in the collection of paperbacks up at my family’s summer house. I was up a couple of weeks ago again and found some more, which follow: Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home I have no idea what this book is about, though I read the first [...]

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Editing

August 11, 2011

Scorch City’s release date — August 30 — is fast approaching. In the meantime, I’m working on final edits to the manuscript for my third book. Editing is, in many ways, more important than the actual writing of the first draft (at least it is for me). I feel a certain freedom when I’m writing the [...]

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