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These Ithacas: On David Davidar’s “Publishing Tell-All”

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Indian publishing exec David Davidar’s tepid novel Ithaca offers little more than cliches for publishing insiders, but could serve as a 101 course for neophytes.

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May’s Top Self Publishing Reviews from BlueInk

All I wanted was a home

May’s top self-publishing reviews from BlueInk Review include a book of hockey trivia, two charming kid’s titles and a memoir of being raised in an orphanage.

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April’s Top Self Publishing Reviews from BlueInk

Petentate of the Walking Horse

Our compendium of the top reviews of self-published books from BlueInk Reviews includes an ‘Old West meets space frontier’ sci-fi story and a spellbinding mystery.

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March’s Top Self Publishing Reviews from BlueInk

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No starred reviews, but several well reviewed titles, including the first in a trilogy of ‘Viking tween’ adventures and a memoir about Latin American Jews.

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Juan José Saer’s ‘Scars’ is a Beautiful, Dark Lesson in Humility

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Scars is a beautifully-structured lesson in humility and perspective, accented with sparkling, if dark, humor.

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Thanhha Lai: From Wartime Saigon to the National Book Awards

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This year’s National Book Award goes to a young adult novel written in verse about a family escaping from Saigon to the United States.

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What’s Your Favorite Book of 2011 That Nobody’s Talking About?

A good book lives on in memory. But isn’t it better if you can get others to read it, too? By Edward Nawotka The end  … 

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Sjón’s ‘From the Mouth of the Whale’ is a Fascinating, Unsettling Experience

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An Icelandic man is sentenced to live out his life on a bleak and uninhabited island after being convicted of sorcery in the new novel from Iceland’s Sjón.

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Ingrid Winterbach’s Novel Leaves You Aching for the Dramatic Denouement

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Ingrid Winterbach’s new novel translated from the Afrikaans, The Book of Happenstance, leaves the reading waiting for a resolution or dramatic action that never comes.

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Sparkling Debut Novel from Norwegian Author Kjersti Skomsvold

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am

Norwegian Kjersti Skomsvold’s novel – The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am – just might change the way you interact with people you’ve always ignored.

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