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In This Mountain (The Mitford Years, Book 7)
Jan Karon
Penguin Books, 2002
Mitford Series - In This Mountain
Jan Karon does a great job with this whole series - haven't found a book yet I didn't enjoy!
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Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
Penguin Books, 2004
I finally read it and I'm so glad I did
When I see a book on so many favorite lists all over the internet and all over Amazon.com I figure this many people can't be wrong. So I read the book in question and nine times out of ten I love the book. And that is definitely what happened with Maisie Dobbs. Loved ...
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On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Penguin Books, 2006
Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.
"My largest structural debt should be obvious to any E.M. Forster fan; suffice it to say he gave me a classy old frame, which I covered with new material as best I could." Zadie Smith.
English novelist Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted for the ...
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Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Penguin Books, 2006
A MASTERPIECE
Stepping Off the Edge: Learning & Living Spiritual Practice
A classic in Native American literature, Ceremony tells the story of Tayo, a young Native man who returns from W.W.II with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Silko's masterful writing interweaves the personal, ...
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Penguin Books, 2007
Shines Brilliantly Like a Just-Discovered Piece of Cameo Jewelry from a Bygone Era
It's difficult to give any even-handed critique F. Scott Fitzgerald's standard-setting Jazz Age novel since it was required reading for most of us in high school. However, if you come back to it as a full-fledged adult, you'll find that the story still resonates but ...
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The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Penguin Books, 1996
Boyle's Crowning Achievement
This is by far Boyle's best work yet. He was initially deeply vilified for writing this novel, but as California's political and social climate shifted, and became part of mainstream cognizance the same people who labeled him as 'human garbage' now praise him and this ...
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"You Are What You Eat" Cookbook
Gillian McKeith
Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
You are what you eat
This book is well Brilliant! I started cooking things I never used before. I have dropped 20 pounds in 2 weeks and feel 100% better. My husband even started to eat some of my meals. The conversions charts for farenheit and the metric system are easy enough to print ...
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Penguin Books Ltd, 1998
Selfishness and stupidity cause more pain than evil can
In the field of erotic literature, this novel has probably touched the awareness of the public more than any other, to such an extent that the once innocuous name of Lolita has become another name for youthful feminine charm and sexuality, to put it mildly.
Those ...
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Death and Judgment (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)
Donna Leon
Penguin Books, 2006
A very vivid book.
The first scene is of an accident involving a large carrier-truck in the mountains which, crashing, spills and kills its contents: the corpses of women lie in the snow, littering the mountainside like so many bright dolls.
As in many Brunetti novels, justice does ...
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen
Penguin Books, 2002
this book rocks!!
No need for lots of words here: this is one the best books ever written. Each re-reading highlights Austen's genius, as new gems are discovered throughout in various forms. 'nuff said.
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Penguin Books Ltd, 2008
deceptively simple
"The Black Swan" may seem to be a simple concept, but the implications are more complex and deep than may appear at first glance. The leap from commonplace beliefs to the realization that many of them are just that: commonplace and wrong is as difficult as the leap was ...
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The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)
Penguin Books, 1977
A Correction of False Vulgarization of Neitzsche
A recent interesing discussion encouraged this reviewer to comment on this book edited by the late Walter Kaufmann. This anthology undermines the false popularlization of Nietzsche, and serious readers get a better understanding of Nietzsche than is provided by critis ...
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The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history
John M. Barry
Penguin Books, 2005
A Hot Read
A detailed look at the horrible influenza epidemic that decimated not only the United States but most of the world in 1918, killing tens of millions and sickening many more. An excellent job of explaining the biological and medical complexities of the disease, ...
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics)
Emily Bronte
Penguin Books, 2007
This Heathcliff Is No Pussy!
(Like the curmudgeonly CAT in the COMIC...get it?)
Great old-style classic novel. One of Henry Miller's favorites; that's what attracted me to it.
I liked the style of the narrative, largely told through the reminiscences of the housekeeper Nelly. This is one ...
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Momo (Puffin Books)
Michael Ende
Penguin Books, 1992
Beyond wonderful
Maybe the reason that this is the hardest Michael Ende book to find in English is that it really is telling children a lot about the real nature of the society, particularly the wonderful "free market economy" part of it, as well as "productivity" and "gross domestic ...
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