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NoBSBookReviews has moved to Today.com read the latest review of: The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry It was a simple life for Charles Unwin. He rode his bicycle everyday to the Agency where he worked as a clerk. For the last 20 years, Unwin had been assigned to transcribe and file the case notes taken by Detective Travis Sivart, a man he’s never met. And, a man who is now missing... click here or on the picture for the rest of the review Read Full Story

NoBSBookReviews has moved to Today.com read the latest review of: The Sun and the Moon by Matthew Goodman As newspapers are closing down in 2009, author Matthew Goodman takes a look at the tenuous birth of the newspaper industry almost two hundred years ago... click here or on the picture for the rest of the review Read Full Story

NoBSBookReviews has moved to Today.com read the latest review of: by George by Wesley Stace A tale of two Georges. George Fisher during WWII and George Fisher of the 1970’s. Two boys related by family but not by blood... click here or on the picture for the rest of the review Read Full Story

NoBSBookReviews has moved to Today.com read the latest review of: Alex & Me by Irene M. Pepperberg After trying (and failing) to write this review without bias towards Dr. Pepperberg and her work, I’ve decided to add this disclaimer at the beginning and stop trying to work against myself... click here or on the picture for the rest of the review. Read Full Story

NoBSBookReviews has moved to Today.com read the latest review of: Noir by Olivier Pauvert An un-named protagonist wakes to find a woman mutilated and hanging from a tree. Before he can figure out why she looks vaguely familiar, the police arrive and arrest him for murder... click here or on the picture for the rest of the review Read Full Story

NoBSBookReviews has moved to Today.com read the latest review of: Peaches & Daddy by Michael M. Greenburg "...Edward Browning was 51 when he met Frances 'Peaches' Heenan at a sorority dance. She was 15. They were married on her 16th birthday. The marriage lasted less than a year during which time she spent approximately $1,000 a day in New York department stores. I'd hardly call this a model marriage."---Ann Landers, January 6, 1970. click here or on the picture for the rest of the... Read Full Story

It was a dark and stormy night...Boston, Scollay Square, 1960. Flo is alone and pregnant and being followed by drunken sailors. All she wants is a safe, dry place to rest. Escaping her pursuers, she ducks into a darkened used bookstore. Finding it free of people, she searches out a warm corner near the water heater, reaches for James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and begins to shred it's pages as she builds a nest for her impending family. Our narrator is Firmin . The thirteenth rat in this litter... Read Full Story

"If Sesame Street is the most successful show on television, it is also the most analyzed, criticized, evaluated, debated, debunked, championed, viewed with alarm, pointed to with pride, interpreted, misinterpreted, and overinterpreted media event since William Randolph Hearst declared war on Spain:---Ron Powers, television critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, 1970 (one year into the life of "Sesame Street"). Conceived in 1965 by television producer Joan Cooney and experimental psychologist... Read Full Story

Imagine the possibilities, if the intellectual Henry and William James of the east, were brothers to the villainous Frank and Jesse James of the west.This is the premise of Richard Liebmann-Smith's farcical book The James Boys . Working from the premise that the two youngest brothers of the east coast James family did not, in fact, die fighting in the civil war, but instead deserted, taking on the names Frank and Jesse and disappearing into the wild west, Liebmann-Smith weaves these two... Read Full Story

"A bad man in Africa" "A brain as well as a body" "A possible victim of alien abduction" "A Beatle" These are among the lives chronicled in The Economist Book of Obituaries . Unlike most newspapers, where the job of obituary writer is given to rookies or "burnt out" reporters, Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe, of The Economist have turned this position into a job for artists, and, as a result, are highly respected journalists in their field. As Ms Wroe explains in her introduction, obit writers... Read Full Story