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The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel
Andrew Sean Greer
Picador, 2005
Fantastic! You'll love this one if ...
+ "... so much to explain, but first you must believe..."
+ Confessions of Max Tivoli
+ Great story well told
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O My Darling: A Novel
Amity Gaige
Other Press, 2005
Happy Ever After....Gad To Be Married
+ original and beautifully written
+ A truly wonderful, humanistic portrayal of love
I found O My Darling, Amity Gaige's first novel hard to finish: I would read a few paragraphs then call my friend Gerry and read him a half dozen gems. How long could you keep this sentence to yourself: "After being dead for awhile i guess you just have to accept it." Finally I bought Gerry his ...
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Canaan's Tongue
John Wray
Knopf, 2005
Canaan's Tongue
+ Grostequerie abounds!
+ Canaan's Review
Literary historical fiction, ostensibly about slave-stealers during the Civil War.
But really about belief and its pitfalls, mysticism that cannot entirely be explained away, and the choice that America during the Civil War was on the verge of making.
Canaan's Tongue features one appealing ...
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People I Wanted to Be
Gina Ochsner
Mariner Books, 2005
a lovely read
+ Magical, Imaginative Realism
+ Bold and brilliant
+ Gina Ochsner has a wonderful voice
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Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel
Emmanuel Dongala, Maria Louise Ascher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
A bitter struggle
+ The cruel exploitation of Africa's youth.
+ Engrossing and educating.
+ This book will break your heart
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Three Day Road
Joseph Boyden
Viking Adult, 2005
Terrific gut wrenching story...
+ A 'must read' literary work for medical students
+ Simply terrific
+ Three Day Road
+ Something new (for a change)
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Other Electricities: Stories
Ander Monson
Sarabande Books, 2005
Crackling "Electricities"
+ this book: hell yeah
+ other
A handful of times in your life you pick up a book that you know almost immediately is destined to be in that small cluster of books you consider personal touchstones. This is one. It's so fearless, so exhilaratingly creative, so completely inhabited, and captures the feel of life so well it's ...
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The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra
Anchor, 2005
A beautiful downer
+ Fundamentalism versus the feminine
+ A powerful novel
+ interesting but...
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Tangerine Dream
Ken Douglas
Bootleg Press, 2003
Good fiction
+ Shades of a Past President and his Problem
+ Very Good Book Club Pick
+ All in all, a good book
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You Remind Me of Me: A Novel
Dan Chaon
Ballantine Books, 2005
Amazing....
+ An extraordinary look at the "ordinary"
This book was amazing...Chaon writes with a poetry that I haven't read since Kerouac. And not that I'm comparing this book at all to Kerouac, per say, but Chaon writes with the same intensity...he weaves words together so that they flow effortlessly on the page, and then later, stay with you as you ...
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The Great Inland Sea
David Francis
MacAdam/Cage, 2005
subtle and haunting
+ David Francis
+ A Debut Worth Noting.
+ Darkly Brilliant - 4.5 Stars
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Her Body Knows: Two Novellas
David Grossman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
"Women's Literature"? Fiddlesticks!!!
+ A must
+ it's all in the passion
+ Under someone else's skin? In some one else's soul !
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The Moon Witch (Fyne Witches, Book 2)
Linda Winstead Jones
Berkley Sensation, 2005
I NEVER WANT THIS SERIES TO END!!!!
+ Shape shifters and Witches
+ Juliet of the Moon
+ Excellent Series!!!
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One Sunday Morning: A Novel
Amy Ephron
William Morrow, 2005
A gem of a novel
+ Not What I expected, pleasant surprise
+ A Great Sunday Read...
+ An Interesting Little Story
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The Company Car: A Novel
C.J. Hribal
Random House, 2005
I recognize many of these people - but In the same family!!
+ a good story
+ An emotional roller coaster for a 64 year old male
I am from WI and boy this author knows the people. It should be a movie - no, a mini series. They have them about Chicago, New York, Texas, California. This is the great Midwest, the farm country. The real stuff is in this book. A bit wordy for me at times and from a man's point of view but I ...
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