by | Dec 29, 2016 | All Book Reviews, Popular Novels, Tom's Reviews
Not Quite a Christmas Miracle Review by Tom Keech After being away for several years, a young man returns on Christmas Eve to his deceased mother’s dusty flat in a dilapidated neighborhood in Paris. Fighting off a pervasive sense of vague remorse and guilt, he tries...
by | Dec 29, 2016 | All Book Reviews, Popular Novels, Tom's Reviews
247 To Go Review by Tom Keech This is only one of 248 thrillers written by Frederic Dard. It’s not his best. I know that, even though I’ve read only two. As a prisoner is being tortured in an adjacent room, a secret agent is given the task of befriending an inmate to...
by | Dec 15, 2016 | All Book Reviews, Popular Novels, Tom's Reviews
Male Rage Review by Tom Keech (Spoiler alert: this review reveals the answer to the central mystery of the story.) A band of anarchists is led by a second personality who inhabits the narrator’s body without his knowledge. Hundreds of men flock to this person’s...
by | Dec 15, 2016 | All Book Reviews, Popular Novels, Tom's Reviews
Well, Somebody’s Pleasures Review by Tom Keech In London in early Victorian times, during a horrific recession that brings the seething underclass out into the streets, an orphaned 19-year-old girl of the gentility takes an abnormal interest in a series of...
by | Dec 14, 2016 | All Book Reviews, Popular Novels, Tom's Reviews
Better Than the Old Wife Review by Tom Keech Michael, a 40-year-old, divorced New York suburbanite who has lost his prestigious job and his most recent girlfriend, is on the verge of falling into alcoholism and depression when he is rejuvenated by a 72-hour stand with...
by | Nov 26, 2016 | All Book Reviews, Popular Novels, Tom's Reviews
Pulitzer Schmullitzer Review by Tom Keech This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Olive’s outlook on life is so dark she spreads unhappiness wherever she goes. Her husband brings her flowers and embraces her, but she only “waits for the hug to end.” She doesn’t...
