Book Reviews
This page contains book reviews online as
well as Reading Recommendations from staff and volunteers at
the Brewster Ladies' Library.
Online Book Reviews
New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/books has an extensive archive of reviews, bestsellers, discussions, first chapters and more.
The New York Review of Books - http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html offers selections from its literary review.
Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/books/ includes reviews, first chapters, bestseller lists, and other resources.
Booklist - http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html is the digital counterpart to Booklist magazine. Includes brief reviews on a wide range of new books.
Reviews from library staff and volunteers
June 2010
Click here to read reviews on the following titles:
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remick (Jim
Mills)
Trailside Treasures, Plants of Cape Cod by Nancy Wigley and
Susan W. Carr; Mudflat Mania!, Exploring the ocean when the tide pulls out! by
Irene Ledwith, Bud and Betsy Ferris (James N. McCutcheon)
The
Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age
New York by Deborah Blum (Jim Mills)
Omnibus - From: Archives of
American Television Presents (Don Boink)
The Monument Men -Allied
Heroes , NAZI Thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history by Robert
M. Edsel with Brett Witter (Don Boink)
The Big Burn, Teddy
Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan (James N. McCutcheon)
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against
Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller (Jim Mills)
The Worst Hard Time
by Timothy Egan (James N. McCutcheon)
The Imperial Cruise by
James Bradley (Don Boink)
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
(Suzanne McInerney)
April 2010
Click here to read reviews on the following titles:
Books Read on Vacation by John Figueras
Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope (John Figueras)
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (John Figueras)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle (John Figueras)
Andrew Jackson, His Life and Time by H. W. Brands (James N. McCutcheon)
Roughing It by Mark Twain (John Figueras)
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (John Figueras)
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer (Jim Mills)
The American by Henry James (John Figueras)
Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal (Don Boink)
Daughter of Kura by Debra Austin (Don Boink)
The Reavers by George Macdonald Fraser (Don Boink)
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Suzanne McInerney)
April 1865, The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik (James N.
McCutcheon)
Courage And Consequence, My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by
Karl Rove (James N. McCutcheon)
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (Jim Mills)
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment by
Stephen Kotkin (Jim Mills)
Erewhon by Samuel Butler (John Figueras)
February 2010
Click here to read reviews on the following titles:
The Damned Die Hard by Hugh McLeave (Don Boink)
Have
A Little Faith by Mitch Albom (James N. McCutcheon)
Fly by Wire:
The Geese, The Glide, The Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche
(Jim Mills)
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley (Don Boink)
In Afghanistan, Two hundred years of British Russian and American
Occupation by David Loyn (James N. McCutcheon)
1491: New
Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Jim Mills)
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Jim Mills)
Island at the
Center of the Earth - The epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten
colony that shaped America. by Russel Shorto (Don Boink)
A Country Of
Vast Designs by Robert W. Merry (James N. McCutcheon)
Horse
Soldiers by Doug Stanton (Don Boink)
- Start with the book title and author, and your name.
- Then consider a brief overview of the book to set the scene, so that a prospective reader will know whether this is a book that fits their interests.
- Some more details about the content of the book, maybe a few quotes, are helpful.
- Feel free to include your personal likes and dislikes about the book, and why.
- Maybe this book reminds you of something else you have read: how do they compare?
- Try to keep reviews to around 300-350 words, and forgive us if we make a few edits to create a "reader friendly" web version.
- Submit your review as a Word document attachment via email to Suzanne McInerney at smcinerney21@comcast.net, or drop off your review at the reference desk at the library.
Copies of the these and earlier reviews are available from the reference desk at the library.
We'd like to hear from you!
Thanks to those loyal book reviewers who share their reading with us month after month.
We are looking for additional readers who would like to join our crew. See below for some review guidelines.
You may submit your review as a Word document attachment via email to Suzanne McInerney at smcinerney21@comcast.net,
or drop off your review at the reference desk at the library.
The deadline for our Spring edition is April 24th.
Thanks, and welcome aboard!