cross-cultural

The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau: Book Review & Giveaway

Cross Cultural
The Book of Jonas

I kept seeing the book cover for The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau and loved the drawings on it. When I read the publisher’s brief description of this debut novel, I couldn’t see the connection between the story and the cover. Then I began to read and it all made perfect sense. This is [...]

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Double Book Giveaway & Giveaway Hop: The Thief & A Need So Beautiful

Crime Story
Spring Cleaning Giveaway Hop

We’re participating in the Spring Cleaning Giveaway Hop with a double book giveaway! One book is an advance reader’s copy, The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, and one is a finished hardback copy, A Need so Beautiful by Suzanne Young. They share a common thread. The Thief features a pickpocket whose countenance must be easily forgotten. [...]

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Book Giveaway & Review: Drifting House by Krys Lee

Cross Cultural
Drifting House

We live in a world that grows smaller by the minute, so PopcornReads.com likes to provide reviews of cross-cultural novels. When I saw the publisher’s description of Drifting House by Krys Lee, I realized we haven’t reviewed any books about Koreans and Korean Americans. This looked like an ideal opportunity to learn more about that [...]

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The Lost Goddess: A Non-Stop Exotic Action-Adventure Thriller by Tom Knox

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The Lost Goddess

International bestselling author Tom Knox’s latest novel is The Lost Goddess (published as Bible of the Dead in the UK). This story combines archeology, political intrigue and horrors, neurological surgery and exotic locations to provide us with an edge of the seat non-stop thriller. Whether you like action-adventure, international political thrillers, science thrillers, or just [...]

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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: A Rare and Beautiful Story

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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

It is with great joy that I bring you my review of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan Philipp Sendker. This is a story set in New York and in Burma, a country most Westerners know little about. The truth is though that it doesn’t matter where it’s set to some extent because it’s [...]

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The Artist of Disappearance: Stories of Art vs. Reality by Anita Desai

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The Artist of Disappearance

Anita Desai has been short-listed three times for the Booker Prize. I had heard wonderful things about her stories, so I was really happy to get a digital advance reader’s copy of The Artist of Disappearance. In this series of three novellas, she brings us stories of what happens when the perception of art meets [...]

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