George Pelecanos is probably best known for his work with David Simon on the TV drama The Wire and now as co-creator of Simon’s new show The Deuce. As befits those sprawling, socially driven pieces of television, Pelecanos writes in a similar style, his gritty crime novels being as interested in the milieu as in…
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Bookish and Not So Bookish Thoughts post and I am obviously procrastinating in my 20 Books of Summer reviews so here are some of the bookish and not so bookish things that have been going on chez 746 Books! Bookish and Not So Bookish Thoughts is hosted…
‘What is it I want to make something of? A collection of sound’ Motel Chronicles Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon doesn’t appear on this year’s 20 Book of Summer list, but it was on my list in 2014! I don’t feel so bad swapping one of my current list for this one as I didn’t…
Read more No 583 Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard
It is safe to say that my 20 Books of Summer Challenge is not going to plan at all. With just under 4 weeks to go, I have read 10, reviewed a pitiful 5 and am half way through 2 more. 20 seems very far away right now and if my summer continues the…
The curse of 20 Books of Summer has struck again! For yet another year, my reading is going really well, but the reviewing is falling by the wayside. I swore I wouldn’t do mini-reviews, but I have to face facts. We’re one month in and by my calculations, I should have 6.66 books reviewed. I…
Eoin McNamee has made his name as an author of noirish literary reimaginings of real life crimes. From the Shankill Butchers to Princess Diana, he mines the novelistic possibilities that real life murder and conspiracy is alive with. His writing is lyrical, at times beautiful and always at odds with his subject matter. The…
In Claire Messud’s acclaimed novel The Woman Upstairs, her fascinating character of Nora was held up as a perfect example of an unreliable narrator, to the point where some readers even questioned her sanity. In The Hunters, a collection of two novellas, Messud seems to be dissecting the very idea of what a narrator is.…
