Online Book Club: "Hunt's writing ability is phenominal"

Online Book Club gives The Museum of Lies "five out of five stars" and says "Hunt’s writing ability is phenomenal. His writing is so inviting, witty, and well-written that I could feel every emotion that Cary felt. Being able to make your readers feel the emotions of your fictional characters is a gift."

"Once I passed the halfway point of the book, I couldn’t put it down. After each memory of Cary’s ended, I had to keep reading to find out what happened to him. His childhood was so tragic and horrible (and somehow sprinkled with little bits of good luck—like writing a poem at 15 that gets picked up by a famous singer) that I couldn’t stop reading until I knew the ending."

"I highly recommend this book to those who like funny, engaging stories that are, in essence, just very well-written."

Read the full review here: https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=708117

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Kirkus Reviews: "A masterful storyteller"

Kirkus Reviews calls The Museum of Lies "A funny, dark, and deeply human novel about what shapes us as human beings. "Leaping back and forth between childhood traumas and the yo-yo dieting and personal humiliations of his adulthood, Hunt’s novel follows Cary’s unlikely journey toward self-understanding via recovered memory therapy—though whether the memories he ends up recovering are true (and what they might mean for his sense of himself) is not so cut and dried. The writing is as psychologically acute as it is funny ..." "Hunt is a masterful storyteller, escalating his protagonist’s misadventures to the point of farcical truth. Cary feels just responsible enough for his predicaments to make him a compellingly tragic figure, someone whose larger-than-life problems feel both real and searingly relevant to the reader." Read the full review here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j-timothy-hunt/the-museum-of-lies/ AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK, KINDLE &...

In the News

J. Timothy Hunt and his family were featured in the cover story of Toronto magazine "Neighbours of Yorkville & the Annex." (Issue no 9, July 2018. Best Version Media).

Book Review: Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail’s 8th annual selection of the 100 best and most influential books of 2005 CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil By J. Timothy Hunt McClelland & Stewart, 389 pages, $36.99 This is a skillfully written book with many strands: the politics of development in an oil-rich nation; the local practices of large multinational companies; the colourful but often violent recent history of Africa's most populous nation; and a story of personal tragedy, flight and survival. The book focuses on Owens Wiwa and his wife, Diana. Wiwa was the brother of Ken Saro-Wiwa, charismatic leader of the Ogoni people, hanged by Sani Abacha's regime in 1995 on murky charges of political murder. — David M. Malone.

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