Book Review: All Quiet on the Western Front

Reviewed by Michael Attard All Quiet on the Western FrontBy Erich Maria Remarque240 pages, Random House, 1996 (Originally 1929)ISBN-10: 0449911497; ISBN-13: 978-0449911495 On the dedication page, author Erich Maria Remarque … Read More

Book Review: The Plotters

Reviewed by Michael Attard The Plotters By Un-su Kim 304 pages, Doubleday, 2029 ISBN-10: 0385544383; ISBN-13: 978-0385544382 The setting is early 21st-century South Korea. The main character of this crime … Read More

Book Review: Around the World on a Bicycle

By Michael Attard Around the World on a Bicycle is more than a young man’s memoir covering almost two years of his life. It is an exotic adventure over mountains, … Read More

Book Review: Light in August

Reviewed by Michael Attard William Faulkner, the author of Light in August, was born in Mississippi in 1897. This fictional story takes place in the 1930’s. Historically, it was a … Read More

Book Review: When Rain Clouds Gather

Reviewed by Michael Attard When Rain Clouds Gather By Bessie Head 186 Pages, Waveland Press, 2013 (Original 1968) ISBN-13: 978-1478607595 When Rain Clouds Gather was first published in 1968 when … Read More

Book Review: Stoner

By Michael Attard The story Stoner, by John Edward Williams (1922–1994), is fiction but draws from the author’s own life. A tale of humble beginnings from dirt poor farming, flowing … Read More

American Dirt – Book Review, May 2025

By Michael Attard The story is fiction, but the author, Jeanine Cummins, has grippingly brought to the fore one of the greatest social dilemmas, traumas, and moral issues of our … Read More

Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival – Book Review, April 2025

Reviewed by Michael Attard The book is a memoir from World War II Holocaust survivor Franci Rabinek Epstein. Her story mostly relates what happened to her during a three-year period … Read More