http://nobsbookreviews.today.com Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:57:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was a simple life for Charles Unwin. He rode his bicycle everyday to the Agency where he worked as a clerk. For the last 20 years, Unwin had been assigned to transcribe and file the case notes taken by Detective Travis Sivart, a man he’s never met. And, a ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/04/05/the-manual-of-detection-by-jedediah-berry/ As newspapers are closing down in 2009, author Matthew Goodman takes a look at the tenuous birth of the newspaper industry almost two hundred years ago. The Sun and the Moon follows the early life of a penny newspaper in New York City. Editor Benjamin Day published his first issue of ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/03/26/the-sun-and-the-moon-the-remarkable-true-account-of-hoaxers-showmen-dueling-journalists-and-lunar-man-bats-in-nineteenth-century-new-york-by-matthew-goodman/ A tale of two Georges. George Fisher during WWII and George Fisher of the 1970’s. Two boys related by family but not by blood. The Fisher family is a matriarchal family of entertainers. Great grandmother (Echo), grandmother (Queenie) and mother (Frankie) are the women holding this family together and keeping ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/03/16/by-george-by-wesley-stace/ After trying (and failing) to write this review without bias towards Dr. Pepperberg and her work, I've decided to add this disclaimer at the beginning and stop trying to work against myself. You will notice, I use the word “who” when referring to animals. I am aware that this ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/03/06/alex-me-by-irene-m-pepperberg/ An un-named protagonist wakes to find a woman mutilated and hanging from a tree. Before he can figure out why she looks vaguely familiar, the police arrive and arrest him for murder. As he's being transported to prison, the police van over-turns killing all it's occupants, except this suspect. He ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/02/24/noir-by-olivier-pauvert/ "...Edward Browning was 51 when he met Frances 'Peaches' Heenan at a sorority dance. She was 15. They were married on her 16th birthday. The marriage lasted less than a year during which time she spent approximately $1,000 a day in New York department stores. I'd hardly call this a ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/02/14/peaches-daddy-by-michael-m-greenburg/ It was a dark and stormy night...Boston, Scollay Square, 1960. Flo is alone and pregnant and being followed by drunken sailors. All she wants is a safe, dry place to rest. Escaping her pursuers, she ducks into a darkened used bookstore. Finding it free of people, she searches out a ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/02/04/firmin-by-sam-savage-2/ "If Sesame Street is the most successful show on television, it is also the most analyzed, criticized, evaluated, debated, debunked, championed, viewed with alarm, pointed to with pride, interpreted, misinterpreted, and overinterpreted media event since William Randolph Hearst declared war on Spain:---Ron Powers, television critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, 1970 ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/01/26/street-gang-by-michael-davis/ Imagine the possibilities, if the intellectual Henry and William James of the east, were brothers to the villainous Frank and Jesse James of the west. This is the premise of Richard Liebmann-Smith's farcical book The James Boys. Working from the premise that the two youngest brothers of the east coast James family ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/01/15/the-james-boys-by-richard-liebmann-smith/ "A bad man in Africa" "A brain as well as a body" "A possible victim of alien abduction" "A Beatle" These are among the lives chronicled in The Economist Book of Obituaries. Unlike most newspapers, where the job of obituary writer is given to rookies or "burnt out" reporters, Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe, of ... http://nobsbookreviews.today.com/2009/01/05/the-economist-book-of-obituaries-by-keith-colquhoun-and-ann-wroe/