2009 Tournament of Books-Winner

In the end it was Toni Morrison’s A Mercy defeating Tom Piazza’s City of Refuge.   I haven’t read A Mercy yet myself, so I can’t comment.  I will probably read City of Refuge first since it is about my town-New Orleans.

Man On Wire

It won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar for 2009 and is the best reviewed movie in the history of RottenTomatoes.com, with all 138 critics giving a positive review. It’s Man On Wire and it is available at the Tunxis Library.
See it!

Nose Down, Eyes Up – Book Review

Nose Down, Eyes Up

Reviewed by Paul McMahon

Careless in Red – Audio CD Review

Careless in Red

By:  Elizabeth George
Read by Charles Keating
10 CDs 11 1/2 Hours
You may have run into Thomas Lynley in Mystery on PBS along with his partner Sergeant Barbara Havens (I may have this name wrong).
Lynley’s wife and unborn child have been murdered and Lynley has resigned and started on a trek up the bleak coast trail [...]

The 2009 Tournament of Books

March brings not only the madness of the NCAA Basketball tournaments, but a round of 16 clash of some of the best reviewed and most buzzed about books of the year. It’s The Tournament of Books presented by The Morning News online magazine along with Powells Books, with judges plucked from the web literati.
There’s [...]

Dog on it – Book Review

Dog on it

by Spencer Quinn
Reviewed by:  Paul McMahon
We have had a pig book — The Pig Did it
A sheep book — Three Bags Full
And now we have a dog detective book — Dog on it
This is a crime story with a well constructed plot and told in the first person by Chet, a large somewhat mongrel [...]

National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners

You can find these 2008 National Book Critics Circle award winners here at the Tunxis Library:
Fiction
2666 by Roberto Bolano

General Nonfiction
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

Criticism
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer

Library Hours during Spring Break

For the week of Spring Break the Tunxis Library will be open:
8am-5pm Monday-Thursday
8am-4pm Friday
We will be closed on Saturday, March 21.

The Religion – Audio CD Review

The Religion: a novel

by Tim Willocks
Read by Simon Vance
Reviewed by Paul McMahon
A book on CD — lots of them, 21 in fact.
There are so many good things about this book I hardly know where to begin, but begin I must.
Let’s start with the reader — Simon Vance.  Simon’s reading enhances the book.  He gives [...]

Greasing the Pinata – Book Review

Greasing the Pinata

By: Tim Maleeny
Reviewed by: Paul McMahon
Maleeny gets a lot of praise for being “a new prince of detective fiction.”  I would say he is getting ripe, but not ready for the big leagues.
The book has an interesting plot about how the Mexican drug lords are investing their money in “green” enterprises such as [...]