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81 reviews
Sue Miller

Knopf, 2008

"Isn't that what marriage is all about?...Staying in it while getting out in some way, too?"
These are not the words of the unfaithful senator, but of the senator's wife, Delia. Once again Sue Miller gives us a brilliantly written novel. When one reads Sue Miller one can see, smell, hear, taste as she describes. One is in the room, in the car with the characters, seeing their expressions, listening to their conversations. Miller has an uncanny understanding of human nature in all its ...

While I Was Gone (Oprah's Book Club)

304 reviews
Sue Miller

Ballantine Books, 1999

How to Be
This book grips you page after page. A book for all who have memories that harry or haunt, who have secrets they don't know how to tell or integrate into their lives, who wonder who people think they are and wonder who they are themselves. Simply one of the best books I've read on working through and integrating life's trials. Not an answer, but a hopeful pointer in the right direction. Past ...

The New Mom's Companion

9 reviews
Debra Gilbert Rosenberg, Mary Sue Miller

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003

Where Have You Been?
I cannot believe I had to endure the pregnancies and births of four children before someone wrote this book! The New Mom's Companion: Care for Yourself While You Care for Your Newborn is an amazing book that speaks directly to a new mom, and about practically ALL of the questions and dilemmas that a new mom has to endure! Wait, it really speaks to ANY mom! I have to admit that I quickly ...

Making Your Children's Ministry the Best Hour of Every Kid's Week

4 reviews
Sue Miller

Zondervan, 2004

Insightful & Motivating!
I found this book be very motivating and encouraging. It showed through real examples of trial error how to truly make your ministry the best hour of a kid's week. Sue Miller has a way of providing insight and after I read this book I felt I had a better understanding of why areas needed to be improved. The end of the book provides an area for group and individual questions. I would recommend ...

For Love

17 reviews
Sue Miller

Books on Tape, 1993

Wonderfully written
Sue Miller manages to write very insightful novels. They are very informative about life. Compassion, angst and love, I love them all.

Children's Ministry That Works !: The Basics and Beyond

3 reviews

Group Publishing, 2002

Perfect for the Undecided
This book gives a great overall view of Children's Ministry. It helps the reader realize that Children's Ministry isn't just sticking children in a classroom and teaching them stuff. There is more to it than that. Great book!

Listening For God: Contemporary Literature And The Life Of Faith (Listening for God)

3 reviews
Michael Malone, James Baldwin, ...

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003

A wonderful resource for discussion groups
Paula Carlson and Peter Hawkins have over the past several years pulled together short stories and a few essays, three volumes in all, from contemporary authors in which faith concerns of all types are raised. The authors are first-rate and include the well known--John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Gail Godwin, John Cheever and others--to lesser known authors like Tillie Olsen and Tess Gallgher. ...

The Good Mother

43 reviews
Sue Miller

Pan, 1987

Thought provoking, and explicit. The Selfish Mother?
I just finished this book, and boy am I exhausted. I would have loved to have given this book 5 stars, but Sue Miller's book was a little to overly explicit and graphic about everything. I felt like I was a psychologist or "Shrink" listening to every detail of Anna's (the main charactor) thoughts. This divorced mother is trying to raise her young daughter, and discover her sexuality with her ...

Lost In the Forest

54 reviews
Sue Miller

BLOOMSBURY, 2006

Daisy and Duncan
Regarding Mark's discovery of his 15 yr. old daughter's relationship with a 53 year old man: Yes, the relationship is repulsive and hard to read about. We are forced to open our eyes to something that we know as a society does happen: many atrractive young girls do become the objects of older mens' fantasies and sexual attentions. We know wihtout even thiking about it that the typical ...

The World Below

47 reviews
Sue Miller

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003

Beautifully detailed, intriguing
Cath is the narrator of "The World Below" by Sue Miller. Cath tells her own story and the story of her maternal grandmother, Georgia. Cath is as real and honest and open as anyone you are likely to meet. Probably more, because she is so articulate. One gains an ineradicable affection for her. Cath's descriptions are beautifully detailed and intriguing. They bring to mind the work of Jan ...

While I Was Gone (Oprah's Book Club)
Sue Miller

Ballantine Books, 1999

The Distinguished Guest

16 reviews
Sue Miller

Harper Perennial, 1999

All in the shading ...
The Distinguished Guest was my first, no doubt too long in coming, dip into the work of bestselling author, Sue Miller. Within the first few pages, indeed, first few lines, I had to wonder what had taken me so long to make this discovery for myself. Here was a literary talent, wide and deep, for the discerning reader. The pages turned if not with great speed, then certainly relish, in the manner ...

The Story of My Father: A Memoir

14 reviews
Sue Miller

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004

Memoir
A heart-felt memoir that could only be written by someone who has experienced this painful journey. My mother died of Alzheimer's and this book helped me with my healing. Thank you Sue Miller.

While I Was Gone
Sue Miller

Ballantine Books, 2002

Family Pictures: A Novel

30 reviews
Sue Miller

Harper Perennial, 1999

Been there
Family Pictures was my first introduction to Sue Miller. Coming from a family that had a severely autistic son, and watching my parent's marriage disintegrate, I can tell you that Sue Miller nails the dynamics pretty well. Bruno Bettelheim's placement of blame on the mother, mentioned in the book, destroyed my mother just as it did Lainey. I had a little trouble with the scene changes that ...

The Story of My Father
Sue Miller

Books on Tape, 2003

In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples with the haunting memories of those final months and the larger narrative of her father's life. With compassion, self-scrutiny, and an urgency born ...

Inventing the Abbots and Other Stories

6 reviews
Sue Miller

Harper Perennial, 1999

An Intriguing, Charming, Refreshingly Good Read
I bought this book soon after watching the movie that shares its name...And I just have to say that the movie, "Inventing the Abbots", is not near as compelling nor as convincing as Miller's version. Not to mention, that the remaining collection of stories in her book are all astounding! The details she brings to her characters make every story in this book so heartfelt and poignant...It is a ...

The Best American Short Stories 2002 (The Best American Series)

9 reviews

Houghton Mifflin, 2002

a wonderful collection
The Best American Short Stories 2002 is a wonderful collection, and a great introduction to some of america's finest new authors. I especially liked the first story, entitled Along the Fontage Road -a compelling story from a father's point of veiw about raising his son in today's world. I would recomend this book to just about anyone who enjoys reading.

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