Today’s Reviews — 5/23
New York Times
The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir
By Honor Moore
365 pages. W. W. Norton. $25.95
Washington Post
Notes on a Supporting Role
NOTES ON A LIFEBy Eleanor Coppola
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.290 pp. $25
Business Week
The Case of the Bogus Bordeaux
The Billionaire’s Vinegar:
The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
By Benjamin Wallace
Crown; 319pp; $24.95
“The Bottom Line: With plenty of suspense and richly quirky characters, this is one juicy tale.”
Time
Business Books
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We AreBy Rob Walker
Random House; 291 pages
Wall Street Journal
Summer Reading
Politics and Poverty
Interview with Sen. Harry Reid, “The Good Fight”
The Maketing of Thirst
BOTTLEMANIA
By Elizabeth Royte
(Bloomsbury, 248 pages, $24.99)
That Melody Sounds Familiar
The Great Transformation of Musical Taste
By William Weber
(Cambridge University Press, 334 pages, $99)
Salon.com
Chief Bender’s Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
by Tom Swift
Univ of Nebraska Pr (April 1, 2008), $24.95
LA Times, Daily
“Austerity Britain: 1945-1951,” David Kynaston
Seattle Times
“(Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class”
by Nan Mooney
Beacon Press, 254 pp., $24.95
“The Pearl”: a nobleman defied social conventionsThe Pearl: A True Tale
of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia”
by Douglas Smith
Yale University Press, 284 pp., $35
Unclear, fussy “Steer” strands reader
Steer Toward Rock
by Fae Myenne Ng
Hyperion, 255 pp., $23.95
“Snuff”: a porn queen’s quest for Immortality“Snuff”
by Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 208 pp., $24.95
“The Lost Daughter” is hardly a parenting guideThe Lost Daughter
by Elena Ferrante
Europa Editions, 160 pp., $14.95
Reconstructing history from the rubble of natural disasters in “Apocalypse”Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God”
by Amos Nur with Dawn Burgess
Princeton University Press,
309 pp., $26.95
“In the Blast Zone”: A collection of essays on Mount St. HelensIn the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens,”
edited by Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Frederick J. Swanson
(Oregon State University Press, 124 pp., $15.95).
Barnes & Noble Review
George MacDonald Fraser: An Appreciation
The Reaversby George Macdonald Fraser
Knopf (April 22, 2008)
Christian Science Monitor
That Summer in Sicily
Marlena de Blasi offers a taste of old-world Sicily with this story of love among the almond blossoms.Ballantine Books 283 pp. , $24