{"id":71363,"date":"2025-08-15T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71363\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:24:09","slug":"the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-week-book-marks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71363\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2039 The Best Reviewed Books of the Week Book Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Orner\u2019s The Gossip Columnist\u2019s Daughter, Caleb Gayle\u2019s Black Moses, and Emily Adrian\u2019s Seduction Theory all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.<\/p>\n

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Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n

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1. The Gossip Columnist\u2019s Daughter<\/a> by Peter Orner
(Little Brown and Company)<\/p>\n

5 Rave \u2022 3 Positive\u00a0\u2022 1 Mixed
Read an excerpt from The Gossip Columnist\u2019s Daughter here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he has constructed is a moody and engrossing meditation on the ephemerality of memory, the persistence of family myths and a haunting ode to a bygone Chicago. A memorable novel of the stories and people everybody has already forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Adam Langer (The New York Times Book Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Seduction<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Seduction Theory<\/a> by Emily Adrian
(Little Brown and Company)<\/p>\n

5 Rave \u2022 1 Positive \u2022 1 Mixed<\/p>\n

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\u201cThough this is Adrian\u2019s sixth book, it brims with the self-assured audacity behind nearly every great debut \u2026 An utterly compelling picaresque \u2026 The book\u2019s many self-references, and references to those self-references, are what make the reading experience such fun \u2026 A finale full of surprises, including\u2026one perfectly executed reversal of our expectations \u2026 For its wit and perspicacity, Seduction Theory can easily be cataloged in the company of Ann Beattie\u2019s Walks With Men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Hannah Pittard (The New York Times Book Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Vulture<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Vulture<\/a> by Phoebe Greenwood
(Europa Editions)<\/p>\n

5 Rave \u2022 2 Positive \u2022 2 Mixed \u2022 1 Pan<\/p>\n

\u201cDarkly comic, searing \u2026 Greenwood\u2019s graphic details are vivid and disturbing \u2026 Greenwood\u2019s stinging, salient novel remains relevant (the more things change, the more they stay the same), excoriating those who make a business of war whether it\u2019s public or personal \u2026 Provocative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Robert Allen Papinchak (The Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"Black<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State<\/a> by Caleb Gayle
(Riverhead)<\/p>\n

6 Rave<\/p>\n

\u201cEloquent, if discursive \u2026 Gayle\u2019s narrative braids his vigorous research with the work of scholars \u2026 Gayle tells an engrossing tale, revealing that the tensions remain the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Hamilton Cain (The Star Tribune<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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2. Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream<\/a> by David M. Lubin
(Grand Central Publishing)<\/p>\n

1 Rave \u2022 4 Positive<\/p>\n

\u201cAdept \u2026 Though the book has its shortcomings, he rightly sees the movie as a kind of passkey into the history of the first half-century of Hollywood itself, warts and all \u2026 Lubin is alert to the various ways that Sunset Boulevard doesn\u2019t just observe Old Hollywood but serves as its mausoleum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Mark Athitakis (The Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"To<\/p>\n

3. To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban<\/a> by Jon Lee Anderson
(Penguin Press)<\/p>\n

3 Rave \u2022 1 Mixed<\/p>\n

\u201cVivid \u2026 Anderson\u2019s pieces are a triumph of high-wire journalism\u2014often taking him into hair-raising action\u2014that also offer a capacious, resonant panorama of Afghan society \u2026 A captivating account of a military march of folly that ably dissects its many tragic delusions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n

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