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Jan 22, 2025 | 
bookroomreviews.com | Mark Graham |Dick Leonardo
Christopher J. Stockwell This is a world of living with many vices of good and bad and learning to make proper choices. This is one book that encompasses three novels by Christopher J. Stockwell. The major character of Jack is in all three of these books is a person who suffers from mental illness and seems to prefer this kind of life till he supposedly hits skid row.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Mark Graham
When newly appointed Penguin China general manager Jo Lusby hosted her international bosses in Beijing for the first time, in 2005, she suggested the publishing executives meet the author of a then-bestselling book, Wolf Totem. On the face of it, a Chinese-language novel about wolves and shepherds written by a pseudonymous Beijing intellectual seemed unlikely to captivate an international audience.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
vocal.media | Mark Graham
I have shared four children's books written by A.A. Milne and his very best friend. He wrote all these stories for his son Christopher Robin. Winnie the Pooh is also known as Edward Bear or as Christopher Robin sometimes called him Silly Old Bear. There are some friendships real and imaginary that last a lifetime and this friendship is one of them.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Phillips Payson O'Brien |Mark Graham |Callum Cant |James Muldoon
Alex Temblador. St. Martin’s Essentials, $19 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-90711-0Novelist Temblador (Half Outlaw), who identifies as mixed Latine, delivers a valuable handbook explaining how authors can responsibly write characters whose abilities, class, gender, race, or sexuality differ from their own.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Phillips Payson O'Brien |Mark Graham |Callum Cant |James Muldoon
Geoffrey K. Pullum. Polity, $25 (176p) ISBN 978-1-5095-6054-7“For two or three centuries writers... have analyzed grammar badly and explained it in antiquated, clunky, or totally mistaken ways,” according to this stimulating if dense treatise. Linguist Pullum (Linguistics) complicates traditional understandings of the English language, contending that because nouns include such “abstract notions” as “absence” and “failure,” it’s inaccurate to define them as simply naming persons, places, or things.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Phillips Payson O'Brien |Mark Graham |Callum Cant |James Muldoon
Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed ThemBy combining gripping accounts of sailing voyages through raging storms with fascinating background on how climate scientists are studying extreme weather, Fox (The Last Winter) delivers a report that’s as entertaining as it is informative. He notes that for decades, sailors have been raising the alarm that centuries-old rules of thumb for navigating the sea are losing their predictive value as climate change transforms the ocean.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Phillips Payson O'Brien |Mark Graham |Callum Cant |James Muldoon
Shayna Maci Warner. Abrams, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6257-4Journalist Warner debuts with an astute account of how depictions of LGBTQ characters on TV have evolved since the 1970s. Early queer characters were often threadbare stereotypes, Warner contends, noting that the “first openly gay recurring character on American TV” was an ascot-wearing, “flamboyant... Broadway set designer” who appeared on the short-lived 1970s sitcom The Corner Bar.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
vocal.media | Mark Graham
'The Wyrm King' the third and final volume of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. In this volume the fantastical characters are really showing themselves and their various talents. Nick and Laurie and family and still learning and making compromises as well as promises trying to be kept in helping the Nixie's and the other people and entities. Nick along with all the others learn how to help each other past and present.
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May 31, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Mark Graham
Just over an hour from central Beijing, hard-pedalling cyclists astride sleek, light, multiple-gear bikes rid themselves of suburban high-rises and glide into a pollution-free and lushly forested landscape. Another 80 minutes of wheel-spinning takes faster riders to the Great Wall itself, cruising smooth roads alongside the Ming dynasty structure that present challenging hills and gentle curves.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Phillips Payson O'Brien |Mark Graham |Callum Cant |James Muldoon
Simon Wu. Harper, $27.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-331620-1This exhilarating debut essay collection from art curator Wu uses cultural artifacts as springboards to reflect on connection, sexuality, and the immigrant experience.
