Book review: 'Enemies: A History of the FBI' by Tim Weiner
Los Angeles Times
In 'Enemies: A History of the FBI,' Tim Weiner ('Legacy of Ashes') offers a scathing indictment of the FBI, before J. Edgar Hoover and since. J. Edgar Hoover, who wanted to expand the FBI¿s power, was angered by the creation of the CIA.

Book Review: Zona
New Zealand Herald
By John Gardner The sales pitch to the literary agent or publisher for this book must have been entertaining. "I want to write a book that is a sort of summary of a wilfully ambiguous science fiction movie made by a Russian director more than 30 years …

Book Review: The Hunger Games, starving for success
Student Press
That is what Effie Trinket announces every year at the reaping of the tributes for "The Hunger Games," an event that takes place in each of the 12 districts for the last 73 years. She is mocked by main character Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne, …

Book review: 'Gillespie and I,' by Jane Harris
Washington Post
There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk. In this novel, the person held universally in contempt is an …

Book Review: 'The Darlings'
NPR
by Alan Cheuse Bernie Madoff's investment scandal inspired financial analyst Christina Alger to write a novel based on the personal and financial turmoil created by the collapse. It's called The Darlings, and Alan Cheuse — writing professor at George …

Book Review: Synchronicity: The Art Of Coincidence, Choice, And Unlocking Your …
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
By Dr Joseph S Maresca, BLOGCRITICS.ORG Synchronicity:The Art Of Coincidence, Choice, And Unlocking Your Mind by Dr. Kirby Surprise is an adventure into the world of Synchronicity in which inner worlds and outer worlds converge like a mirror image.

Book Review: The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by …
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
By ManOfLaBook.com, BLOGCRITICS.ORG The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard is a non-fiction book detailing the 26th President's travels in Brazil. This fascinating account is a must read for fans of the President or …

Book review: Prince Charles on farming and food
Kansas City Star
By SANDY BAUERS As the keynote speaker began to talk, people in the room took special note, and not just because they were listening to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. "Honestly, as I was listening to him speak my jaw dropped, …

Book review: 'The House I Loved' is ode to a Paris lost
Canton Repository
AP Photo/St. Martin's Press In this book cover image released by St. Martin's Press, "The House I Loved," by Tatiana DeRosnay, is shown. By Kim Curtis The Associated Press “The House I Loved” (St. Martin's Press), by Tatiana De Rosnay: The French …

Book review: WATERGATE
Taipei Times
By Janet Maslin / NY Times News Service, NEW YORK In a stealth bull's-eye of a political novel, Thomas Mallon invests the Watergate affair with all the glitter, glamour, suave grace and subtlety that it doesn't often get. His cleverly counterintuitive …
Book review: 'Watergate'
Book review: Watergate, by Thomas Mallon