If You Could Administer 'Instant Karma,' What Would You Do?
Marissa Meyer's new novel follows a girl who — after a karaoke rendition of John Lennon's "Instant Karma" and a blow to the head — develops the ability to visit swift retribution on wrongdoers.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Kindred,’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
In “Kindred,” Rebecca Wragg Sykes offers a complete new story about Neanderthals, both how they lived and how they met their end.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
8 Picture Books About Books
From a Kabul library bus to a Colombian garbage collector’s classics to the woman who brought Ferdinand the Bull to post-World War II Germany.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
What’s Scarier, an Abandoned Boardinghouse or a Creepy Porcelain Doll?
Not much frightens Marilyn Stasio — except, as she admits in her new crime fiction column, eerie old dolls.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg talks about “A Traitor to His Species,” and the illustrator Christian Robinson discusses his career in picture books.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Slumber Parties: New Picture Books for Bedtime
Beautifully illustrated, and often as much incantation as story, these books are guaranteed to lull even the most wide-awake toddler.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fantastic, Flavor-Filled Food Novels for Kids
Four new books feature Taiwanese, Pakistani, Indian and Chinese families — and the tempting cuisines they cook.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
4 Books Fareed Zakaria Recommends for Today’s Political Moment
Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” is on the list: “Still the best book ever written about this country.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Jo Nesbo’s New Book Stars an Antisocial Loner. It’s Not Harry Hole.
There’s butchery and blood aplenty in “The Kingdom,” but no sign of Nesbo’s beloved police detective — just two brothers who have been up to no good.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Robert Gottlieb on Dickensworld — the Great Novelist’s Grand Universe
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Robert Gottlieb considers a new book, “The Mystery of Charles Dickens,” by A.N. Wilson, and delivers his own assessment of the author’s legacy.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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