RavePittsburgh Post-GazetteHonest, open ... Unfolds vividly ... The Violence does not skimp on the details of what Colombians have had to endure over the past 70 years. If I learned anything by reading this book, it is that Colombians are a resilient people. Survival and optimism is the only truth they know ... Ramírez soars gracefully where other writers might have struggled to interest outsiders in another family’s history.
MixedPittsburgh Post-GazetteDiscusses real issues that need to be formally worked out ... Where I take issue is that too much of this book reads more like an advertisement for their tour group, while refusing to question Palestinian leadership ... The Future Is Peace, had the potential to be a game changer in a field already saturated with books on this conflict. Sadly, for now, it offers nothing new.
RavePittsburgh Post-GazetteKlosterman spares no punches and keeps the pages moving. Football features his signature brand of humorous, sardonic and thought-provoking writing ... As the sport changes, Klosterman will once again be the writer who had his finger on the pulse long before anyone else. Football is a book worth keeping around and a great recommendation for the diehard and casual fan alike.
RavePittsburgh Post-GazetteTold through both archival and original interviews, including one with The Boss himself over this past winter, Tonight in Jungleland digs deep to tell the magnificent story ... Carlin is able to tell us more in a book that is a must-read accompaniment to the biography of a man that many of us have only known to exist in the stratosphere of musical artists. But what makes this book remarkable is what almost wasn’t — his most perfect album.
Aleksandar Hemon
PositivePittsburgh Post-GazetteAn endearing journey of romance, time, faith, human migration, war, resilience, ever-enduring hope, addiction, tragedy and a love that is unconditional and seemingly bound eternal through nearly a hundred years of lived experiences ... Hemon’s writing is both gripping and lucid. He creates this work around such meticulous texture that the reader can stand alongside Pinto, and feel the cities as if they were with him ... This story is interrupted, rather abruptly at times, by interjections of Hemon’s personal foray into the research for some of his characters and the reality of the events that surround the fictionalized aspects of his narrative. It became apparent throughout this book that some of the characters you are reading about are based on real people, whose existences serve as the template to his story and are revealed more fully through a rather honest and forthright epilogue. These brief interjections were a bit distracting, as they obstructed the book’s pace and otherwise marvelous storytelling.
