Author Archives: Anysia

The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi by Elif Shafak (Review)

By Anysia | Published: March 4, 2010

Knowing yourself and living with your choices are major themes explored in way that has broad appeal despite the story's focus on spirituality which would normally limit the audience.

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Free Ebook: The Last Days of Vegas

By Anysia | Published: February 17, 2010

From the author of The Hungarian Game comes The Last Days of Las Vegas, a free ebook download. I’ll let Roy Hayes introduce his novel: Many years ago I wrote a rather sardonic espionage thriller, The Hungarian Game, that became a minor best-seller. Somewhere around 500,000 copies were peddled in a number of languages worldwide, and [...]

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The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer (Review)

By Anysia | Published: February 14, 2010

The core premise, once revealed, seems contrived and I found some elements of the story distracting but The Last Surgeon still managed to hook me for a day's reading.

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Vanity Fair Displaying Pirated Content?

By Anysia | Published: February 11, 2010

[February 14, 2010: It appears that the video has now been removed from the Vanity Fair article. Too bad they didn't have a clear enough ethical policy to avoid the issue in the first place.] I’ve been swamped this week so I haven’t had a chance to do any blog posts, but I came across the [...]

Posted in Rambles, Television/Movies | Tagged copyright, Nick Parks, Oscars, Vanity Fair, Wallace & Gromit | Leave a comment