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The Delivery Man: A Novel
Joe McGinniss Jr.
Grove/Atlantic, Black Cat, 2008
Great Story
+ "You are not loved by anyone."
+ An Impressive Debut
This is a great novel. I found out about it on Urban Outfitters.com and was not disappointed. The characters were great and I could totally imagine what life is like for them living in Las Vegas as a teenager. I can't wait until his next book comes out.
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Nose Down, Eyes Up: A Novel
Merrill Markoe
Villard, 2008
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Cost: A Novel
Roxana Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
The Cost of Connecting...
+ Exacting Narrative of the Cost of Addiction
What is the cost of family connections? What is the cost of severing them? Julia Lambert asks these questions during a traumatic time in her family's lives.
An artist and professor, Julia departs to her summer home in Maine, to try and connect with her tyrannical father, a former surgeon now ...
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
Alexandra Fuller
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Excellent Read!
+ Thhis author never disappoints
+ A Beautiful Tale about a Beautiful Soul
+ Great Writing, Strong Story -- It is Real
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Beat the Reaper: A Novel
Josh Bazell
Little, Brown and Company, 2009
Meet Peter Brown, a young Manhattan emergency room doctor with an unusual past that is just about to catch up with him. His morning begins with the quick disarming of a would-be mugger, followed by a steamy elevator encounter with a sexy young pharmaceutical rep, topped off by a visit with a new patient--and from there Peter's day is going to get a whole lot worse and a whole lot weirder. ...
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The House on Fortune Street LP: A Novel
Margot Livesey
HarperLuxe, 2008
Luck and Loss on Fortune Street....
+ classic livesey
+ Different.
+ she just gets better
+ Best Friends
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The Plague of Doves: A Novel
Louise Erdrich
Harper, 2008
The interconnectedness of everything
+ Magnificent
+ The Ways We Need Each Other
+ Disjointed, but still Pretty Good
+ Plague of Doves
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Breath: A Novel
Tim Winton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Another Fine Tim Winton Novel
+ Beath
+ Hugely Enjoyable
+ that was surfing
+ Alone in purgatory
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Knopf, 2008
Excellent
+ Ponderous but splendid
+ Often clunky translation
+ A very Topical International Thriller
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Something to Tell You: A Novel
Hanif Kureishi
Scribner, 2008
"Alas to the surprise of many, psychoanalysis doesn't people behave better, nor does it make them morally good."
+ Whew!
+ Good Book, But Read Buddha of Suburbia First
+ Midlife Voyage
+ Physician, heal thyself
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The Cure for Grief: A Novel
Nellie Hermann
Scribner, 2008
More than Just a Young Girl's Story
+ Moving and soulful
+ Moving and convincing
As the novel opens Ruby is part of a happy family, with two parents and three older brothers. Her father is a holocaust survivor and there is that awful shadow hanging over the story and the happiness in Ruby's life is going to be sorely tried as she loses first a brother to madness, then both her ...
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Downtown Owl: A Novel
Chuck Klosterman
Scribner, 2008
Witty and clever, heartbreaking
+ Downtown Owl Exceeds First Impressions
+ Excellent Transition from Pop Culture to Fiction
Owl, North Dakota is a very small town. With less than 1,000 inhabitants, everyone seems to know everyone. It is 1983, and the old men meet for coffee and nostalgia, and the young men meet for beer, reliving football glory days. Just six months before a devastating storm hits this sleepy burg, ...
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Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel
Rivka Galchen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Tzvi is real
Tzvi Gal-Chen, the real one, the infamous University of Oklahoma Professor, and father of the dehyphenated author Rivka Galchen, occupied the office next to mine at OU, in the years preceding his death. The novel cleverly recycles posthumous biographical material about the real Tzvi Gal-Chen into a ...
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The Winter Rose
Jennifer Donnelly
Hyperion, 2008
If you loved the Tea Rose, you'll love this book!
+ A great historical romance
+ "Buy my fine parsley-o"
I loved The Tea Rose, and this story was just as beautiful and engaging. While the prose may not be the highlight (a few too many sentence fragments--for emphasis-- in my opinion, and sometimes a bit sappy), the story is a gem. Donnelly has done her research; the historical allusions are accurate ...
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The Monsters of Templeton
Lauren Groff
Voice, 2008
Monsters and Ghosts and Scandal, Oh My!
+ Take Your Time
I heard wonderful things about "The Monsters of Templeton" and was very excited to begin reading. The premise is wonderful - Girl comes home pregnant with Professor's baby after trying to kill his wife with a plane in Alaska. Throw in a hippie-turned-evangalist mother and a quest to discover the ...
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