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Lisey's Story
Stephen King
Scribner, 2006
grabbed my imagination all the way through
+ Stephen King in poetic, introspective mode
+ longtime loyal KING fan
I was entranced by the book ... not wanting to put it down to attend to other matters (oh like eating a meal.) As to the negative comments about having phrases that a family would use that mean nothing to others... like YEAH. My family does... I thought all families did.
... guess not..
I wonder ...
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Terrorist
John Updike
Knopf, 2006
Important book- flaws are minor
+ Worthwhile, but Flawed
The story here is well described by other reviewers. Mr Updike sets out to answer two questions that have haunted Americans since 9/11 i.e., why do they hate us and what makes someone become a terrorist. The answer to both questions is the same. Two words, the Koran. Hatred of infidels is ...
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Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon
The Penguin Press, 2006
Ultimate Pynchon
+ "Call 'Em Communications From Far, Far Away..."
+ a year of reading
+ Well Worth the Time
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Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
Deborah Eisenberg
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
Post-9/11ist stories about lostness and aloneness
With "Twighlight of the Superheroes," Deborah Eisenburg is throwing another log onto the early but incipient literary bonfire of "Post-9/11ism." Indeed, these stories are a testament to Post-9/11ism's leading attributes: expectation of imminent doom, the globe as a child that has lost its ...
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The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud
Knopf, 2006
Mixed feeling about this one...
As a thirty year old who lived in Manhattan during my twenties (and still lives nearby), I know so many people who fit the profiles of the characters in the novel, so for me, their lifestyles, self-importance, and overprivileged aimlessness was nothing out of the ordinary and quite relatable ...
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A Woman in Jerusalem
A. B. Yehoshua
Harcourt, 2006
A Modern Classic!
+ The Bookschlepper definitely recommends
+ The Resouce Manager's Mission
Yulia Rageyev was a Soviet immigrant to Jersualem, Israel. She was married and divorced mother of a troubled teenage son. Not much is known about her because she was an unidentified victim of a suicide bombing in Jersualem, her adopted hometown. A journalist and a bakery manager are on a mission to ...
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Last Evenings on Earth
Roberto Bolano
New Directions, 2006
a literary stud
+ Bolano's Meditations on Short-term friendships
+ Very good
+ Atmospheric and melancholy stories of exile
+ bolano wrote great stories
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All Aunt Hagar's Children
Edward P. Jones
Amistad, 2006
Once Again, Jones Amazes
+ Fading folkways
+ Hagar's Children
+ The Children We Would Have Never Known About
+ Mr. Jones does it again!!
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Skinner's Drift: A Novel
Lisa Fugard
Scribner, 2006
A tale for all of us
+ an authentic vivid picture of south africa
+ An intriguing debut novel about the struggles of identity and finding a sense of home
+ Great read
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The Possibility of an Island
Michel Houellebecq
Knopf, 2006
A Canticle for Don Quixote
+ great, but not a starter
A profoundly sad and lyrical book, perhaps the author's masterpiece, in which the Spanish countryside of the mad knight, now modern, disillusioned, and no longer blind, is intertwined with the Spanish countryside of a future millennium that is bleak and all too plausible. If Walter Miller's ...
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One Good Turn: A Novel
Kate Atkinson
Little, Brown and Company, 2006
Great read!
+ A perfect piece of literature!
+ Convoluted mystery, told in a compulsively readable fashion.
I love Kate Atkinson, and this book does not disappoint. This is just an all around great read - great story, great pacing. It would be good to read Case Histories first so you can meet the characters, but the book stands on its own, as well, which I appreciate.
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Intuition
Allegra Goodman
The Dial Press, 2006
Wonderful insight into character motivation and quirkiness
+ original and truthful novel about the world of science
This is a terrific book that deserves a higher rating than it currently has. Goodman's understanding of what makes people tick and how their strengths are also their weakness are amazing. In a delicious way the author illustrates how and why characters feed off each other to get their own emotional ...
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Golden Country: A Novel
Jennifer Gilmore
Scribner, 2006
Golden Country is a Golden Story
+ A big, rich picture
+ Excellent read
Golden Country captures an earlier generation of immigrants, when all things were possible if you were willing to work hard. The intertwining of families who started life in the same Brooklyn neighborhood,the "black sheep" who becomes a member of the mob and how that decision impacts the other ...
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Digging to America
Anne Tyler
Knopf, 2006
wonderful audio version
+ Well I liked it.
+ Multi-Culturalism at its Finest
+ Provocative Ideas
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Alentejo Blue: Fiction
Monica Ali
Scribner, 2006
Disjointed stories, disappointing read
I wanted to like this book, but I, like several other reviewers, had to struggle to finish it, and it is a short book. Although the jacket blurb promises that all the characters will be "...brought together, and their jealousies and disappointments inevitably collide." as though Mamarrosa were a ...
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