Posted in Book Reviews, Books, History, Literature, tagged Alan Furst, Espionage, Graham Greene, Historical Fiction, John Le Carre, Poland, Romance, Spies, Spy Novels, The Spies of Warsaw, Thrillers, Warsaw, World War Two on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Atmospheric and Meandering
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David H. Schleicher “Author of The Thief Maker”
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Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a military attache and French spy living in Poland, begins an affair with a lovely Polish lawyer named Anna while trying to obtain inside information on Germany’s planned invasion of France in Alan Furst’s atmospheric and meandering [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, Book to Film Adaptations, Books, Literature, Movie Reviews, Movies, Psychology, tagged Horror Films, Psychological Thrillers, Ghost Stories, Film Classics, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, Repression, Freud, The Innocents, Jack Clayton, Freddie Francis, Deborah Kerr, Victorian Era, Film School, Novellas on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Henry James’ classic novella from 1898, “The Turn of the Screw” opens with a group of friends discussing ghost stories:
“I quite agree–in regard to Griffin’s ghost, or whatever it was-that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, adds a particular touch. But it’s not the first occurrence of its charming [...]
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Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Books, Inspiration, Literature, Publishing, tagged Caleb Carr, Dublin, Dubliners, Edgar Allan Poe, Elsie Sheridan, Graham Greene, Ireland, James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, Matthew Pearl, Novels, Philip Pankov, Short Stories, The Dead, The Poe Shadow, William Faulkner on March 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
CAPTION: Man dies from boredom on Dublin’s Ha’Penny Bridge while reading a very long novel. *Photo courtesy of Philip Pankov (www.philpankov.com) and www.thenocturnes.com.
Kurt Vonnegut once said of novels that “reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody else knows or cares about.”
I couldn’t agree more while I find myself in a laborious relationship with The [...]
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Divided Attention
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David H. Schleicher “Author of The Thief Maker” - See all my reviews
Michael Ondaatje’s “Divisadero” tells the tale of Anna, her adopted sister Claire, and their father’s farmhand Coop, growing up in the poetic splendor of their California homestead. After scandal and tragedy separate the three, Anna eventually ends up in France years [...]
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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Book Reviews, Book to Film Adaptations, Books, History, Inspiration, Literature, Pop Culture, tagged Bram Stoker, Graham Greene, Harper Lee, Irene Nemirovsky, Iris Murdoch, Nick Tosches, R. L. Fisher, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner on October 27, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Halloween always brings to mind that classic of gothic literature, Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
This is a novel that has so enamored me over the years I once took a class dedicated solely to the study of it line by line. The mythology it created is still alive and well today (witness the recent box office champ 30 Days [...]
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A Flicker of Talent
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David H. Schleicher - See all my reviews
“Fire in the Blood” is the second work to be published posthumously from Irene Nemirovsky, whose masterpiece “Suite Francaise” became a well deserved international sensation in 2006 and 2007. Once again Sandra Smith composes the English translation from the original French and does a [...]
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Twice Remembered
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David H. Schleicher - See all my reviews
Though deeply personal (most of the book deals with correcting history and the memory of the author’s grandfather–a key player in the Treblinka Revolt) and at times impassioned, this is still an academic book. “Twice Dead” is meticulously researched and documented, and its heady philosophical [...]
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Earlier this month The Thief Maker was reviewed by Floyd M. Orr, an author of several non-fiction titles who reviews exclusively books published by iUniverse on his blog under the penname, Tabitha. Orr’s reviews are of special note for authors who have used iUniverse’s self-publishing services as he thoughtfully critiques not only the content and [...]
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Posted in Art, Arts and Entertainment, Book Reviews, Book to Film Adaptations, Books, Inspiration, Literature, tagged William Faulkner, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Quint Buchholz on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I feel the work of art displayed below, “On the Way, Open Book” by Quint Buchholz accurately displays the mindset I was in this summer while reading and writing…
During this long, hot seemingly endless summer while nursing the early stages of a new novel into being, I also dug deep into the classics for inspiration and went on [...]
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Last month, my novel The Thief Maker was featured by “Book of the Moment.” The novel was yet again praised for its shocking plot twists and multiple-point-of-view style of storytelling:
full of twists and turns, July 3, 2007
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I finished reading “The Thief Maker” about an hour ago, and [...]
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