IN HANUMAN’S HANDS by Cheeni Rao
STREET STORIES AND HINDU MYTHOLOGY blend in this startling memoir of a life recaptured from addiction and crime. A MINUS
IN HANUMAN’S HANDS
HarperCollins Publishers
2009
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews
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STREET STORIES AND HINDU MYTHOLOGY blend in this startling memoir of a life recaptured from addiction and crime. A MINUS
IN HANUMAN’S HANDS
HarperCollins Publishers
2009
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews
A FABULOUS FINALE for Donald Westlake’s tales of Dortmunder and gang, who take on reality TV in this last caper. A MINUS
GET REAL
Grand Central Publishing
2009
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews
CRISPLY PLOTTED WHODUNNIT features a murdered architect, a genius hitman, and a world-weary, witty detective duo. B PLUS
SHOOTERS AND CHASERS
Cengage Gale
2009
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
BIO OF GYPSY ROSE LEE, the first celebrity stripper, puts her in 20th-century cultural context. A bit dry, alas. SOLID B
GYPSY: THE ART OF THE TEASE
Yale University Press
2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
ASTONISHING, INSPIRING MEMOIR by a man who spent his twenties in a colony for Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) patients. B PLUS
SQUINT: MY JOURNEY WITH LEPROSY
University Press of Mississippi
2009
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
ZANY, FRENETIC SF about a post-Singularity world where humans and aliens talk to trees, stones, hop dimensions. SOLID B
HYLOZOIC
Tor Books
2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
COLLECTION OF SHORT ESSAYS on high-profile blunders in technology, policy, and the arts hits some, misses some. SOLID C
IT LOOKED GOOD ON PAPER: BIZARRE INVENTIONS, DESIGN DISASTERS, AND ENGINEERING FOLLIES
Harper Paperbacks
2009
Grade: SOLID C
Tags: Solid C Reviews
ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP ANTHEMS form the backbone of this novel about 20-somethings’ relationships and angst. SOLID B
LOVE WILL TEAR US APART: A NOVEL
Three Rivers Press
2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
WELL-RESEARCHED BIOGRAPHY of “Blind Tom”, the formerly enslaved pianist/composer who was a 19th-century celebrity. SOLID B
THE BALLAD OF BLIND TOM, SLAVE PIANIST
Overlook Hardcover
2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
A POET’S GRACEFUL, TOUCHING MEMOIR of love, despair, separation, and the challenges and joys of single motherhood. A MINUS
SOMETHING LIKE BEAUTIFUL: ONE SINGLE MOTHER’S STORY
Harper
2009
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews