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Book Review: "How To Be Great At Doing Good" by Nick Cooney

(CCLaP is dedicated to reviewing as many contemporary books as possible, including self-published volumes; click here to learn how to submit your own book for possible review, although be warned that it needs to have been published within the last 18 months to be considered. For the complete list of all books reviewed here, as well as the next books scheduled to be read, click here.) How To Be Great At Doing Good: Why Results Are What Count and How Smart Charity Can Change the World By Nick...

Book Review: "Vermilion" by Molly Tanzer

(CCLaP is dedicated to reviewing as many contemporary books as possible, including self-published volumes; click here to learn how to submit your own book for possible review, although be warned that it needs to have been published within the last 18 months to be considered. For the complete list of all books reviewed here, as well as the next books scheduled to be read, click here.) Vermilion By Molly Tanzer Word Horde Reviewed by Jason Pettus Out of the large stack of books recently sent t...

The Year in Books 2015: The CCLaP Guilty Pleasure Awards

Click here for the master table of contents. This five-part series is also available as a free standalone ebook, for those who would prefer reading these long write-ups that way. Right-click on the appropriate format below to download it: PDF | EPUB | MOBI/Kindle Want to help CCLaP out a little as we enter 2016? Buy this book at Amazon instead, as either a paperback for $5.99 or an ebook for 99 cents. CCLaP has a proud tradition now of closing each annual Year In Books report with the covete...

The Year in Books 2015: Jason Pettus' Favorites

Click here for the master table of contents. This five-part series is also available as a free standalone ebook, for those who would prefer reading these long write-ups that way. Right-click on the appropriate format below to download it: PDF | EPUB | MOBI/Kindle Want to help CCLaP out a little as we enter 2016? Buy this book at Amazon instead, as either a paperback for $5.99 or an ebook for 99 cents. CCLaP owner Jason Pettus had a busy year away from the center in 2015, starting and complet...

The Year in Books 2015: Chris Schahfer's Favorites

Click here for the master table of contents. This five-part series is also available as a free standalone ebook, for those who would prefer reading these long write-ups that way. Right-click on the appropriate format below to download it: PDF | EPUB | MOBI/Kindle Want to help CCLaP out a little as we enter 2016? Buy this book at Amazon instead, as either a paperback for $5.99 or an ebook for 99 cents. This was Chicagoan Chris Schahfer's first full year as a reviewer here at CCLaP, where amon...

The Year in Books 2015: Karl Wolff's Favorites

Click here for the master table of contents. This five-part series is also available as a free standalone ebook, for those who would prefer reading these long write-ups that way. Right-click on the appropriate format below to download it: PDF | EPUB | MOBI/Kindle Want to help CCLaP out a little as we enter 2016? Buy this book at Amazon instead, as either a paperback for $5.99 or an ebook for 99 cents. Veteran CCLaP book reviewer Karl Wolff had a great year in 2015, publishing his latest book...

The Year in Books 2015: Best of the Best

Click here for the master table of contents. This five-part series is also available as a free standalone ebook, for those who would prefer reading these long write-ups that way. Right-click on the appropriate format below to download it: PDF | EPUB | MOBI/Kindle Want to help CCLaP out a little as we enter 2016? Buy this book at Amazon instead, as either a paperback for $5.99 or an ebook for 99 cents. Other lists coming later this week will feature each individual CCLaP reviewer's personal f...

The Year in Books 2015

It's been another busy year here at the CCLaP blog, with reviewers Karl Wolff, Chris Schahfer and Jason Pettus turning in a total of 89 write-ups; and now here is our annual look at our favorite 40 of those, broken down into a series of reports coming to the blog over the next five days, between now and New Year's. The complete list is below; if a particular title is highlighted, it means it's now online and ready to be read... Monday: Best of the Best Tuesday: Karl Wolff's Favorites Wednesd...

Book Review: "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic," by Jessica Hopper

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic By Jessica Hopper Featherproof Books Reviewed by Chris Schahfer I realize I might have to turn a few contortions to justify reviewing a book of music criticism on a website devoted to literature. After all, this is literature we're talking about, and music criticism can't fit that mold, right? Well, hold up there. Yes, there are a number of conventionally journalistic pieces in this book, but let's think for a moment about what...

Book Review: "See You in the Morning," by Mairead Case

See You in the Morning By Mairead Case Featherproof Reviewed by Chris Schahfer The coming-of-age story has become so commonplace in literature that it's almost a clich, and if there's one issue I have about See You in the Morning - whose world I was otherwise quite happy to inhabit - it was that its plot hews a little too close to those of other coming-of-age novels. Following genre conventions is one thing, but if you've read even a decent amount of these novels, you can tell what will happ...