Liz French

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The Sentinel

Lee Child & Andrew Child | MYSTERY, Nov 01, 2020

Longtime fans will be satisfied with this straightforward adventure filled with familiar Reacherisms and more depth. He even acquires a cell phone, briefly. Those who enjoy Grant’s “David Trevellyan” series will also enjoy this book. It’s fun—but also difficult—to try to discern which brother wrote what.

Basketball Superstars, Hungarian Schoolgirls, Tidy Bears, Gilded Volumes, Mafia Turncoats, Venomous Puppet Masters | What We’re Reading & Watching

Liz French, Sep 11, 2020

The "What We're Reading & Watching" staffers are watching Michael Jordan and Gene Kelly dance; reading about the lack of honor among mafiosi; experiencing displacement and alienation in wartime Hungary; mingling with British couples; and discovering the humor in Balzac.

Whipping, Migrating, Mythologizing, Wording, Bingeing | What We're Reading & Watching

Liz French, Aug 13, 2020

“What We're Reading & Watching" contributors experience the Great American Migration; the British countryside and Brooklyn in the 1970s; mafiosi's self-mythologizing; the wit and wisdom of Mark Forsyth; and the satisfaction of smashing peach pits and whipping aquafaba.

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The Book of Lamps and Banners

Elizabeth Hand | MYSTERY, Aug 01, 2020

Hand’s desolate descriptions and Cass’s larger-than-life persona help to carry a story that is not as intricately plotted as her 2019 stand-alone, Curious Toys, with a few characters not fully f leshed out. Still, followers of the series will be happy to see Cass return

Quarantine Developments | What We're Reading, Watching, & Reassessing

Liz French, Jul 30, 2020

The “What We’re Reading & Watching” crew looks anew at old favorites, rewatches forgotten series, handles horror, carefully discusses politics, blatantly fangirls Iris Murdoch, tries to love the Babysitters Club, and noshes homemade cheesecake.

Dark Tales, Crime Stories, Rereads | What We’re Watching, Reading—and Weeding

Liz French, Jul 10, 2020

The WWR gang at LJ/School Library Journal keep expanding our interior spaces figuratively and literally, with book reading, book weeding, and little TV watching.

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Utopia Avenue

David Mitchell | FICTION, Jul 01, 2020

Mitchell’s sprawling, engrossing look at the psychedelic era is lovingly rendered, though some of the characters’ tolerant attitudes toward homosexuality seem anachronistic. His fans will appreciate the Easter eggs and a metaphysical interlude; those who enjoy revisiting the 1960s will groove on the cameos from many celebrities of the time.