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76 reviews
Daniel Goleman

Random House Uk Ltd, 2006

Intelligence + Awareness = Healthy Relationships! (translation: Read this Book!)
Daniel Goleman's book, "Social Intelligence- The New Science of Human Relationships", is a thought-provoking, analytical immersion in how people interact with one another on a daily basis. Goleman is perhaps widely recognized for his earlier success when he wrote about a similar theme in his previous book Emotional Intelligence. Goleman's theories are intellectually stimulating and ...

Heat

153 reviews
Bill Buford

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

A peek into the kitchen
This is a very fun book. It is especially fun for those of us who have worked in restaurants. The literary images of poor Mr. Buford being thrown to the fire--quite literally--is a delightful ride. It is a foodie's paradise and a self-deprecating memoir of the author's offbeat culinary education (at a somewhat mature age).

Paula Spencer

8 reviews
Roddy Doyle

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

"Sober, hard-working, reliable--she's all these things--and she's talking to the fridge."
Continuing the story of Paula Spencer, the main character in his 1997 novel, The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle focuses on a survivor of horrific spousal abuse, a woman who has been on her own now for twelve years, and whose husband Charlo has been dead for eleven of those years. For this entire period, however, Paula has been lost in a fog of alcohol, and ...

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

295 reviews
Diana Gabaldon

Random House Uk Ltd, 2006

Satisfying, as usual
Gabaldon paints her books with thick color. Her characters are so well-developed that I feel I know them all very well. A Breath of Snow and Ashes closes some questions left from earlier volumes, and rounds out some character detail. I don't want to give anything away here, but it was a thoroughly satisfying read. Happily, it also leaves an opening for further Jamie/Clair volumes. After ...

Bridge of Sighs

110 reviews
Richard Russo

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

Second only to Empire Falls
I love Richard Russo's work. I laughed out loud at Straight Man. I started out pursuing a career in Academia and contrasted the hysterical vision of that world with 'Castalia', Hesse's idyllic world of pure academe. Empire Falls is to date the greatest 21st century American novel. Bridge of Sighs is neither as humorous as either of those books nor as panoramic in scope as Empire Falls, ...

Innocent Traitor

74 reviews
Alison Weir

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

Entertaining and as accurate as any novel can be...
Keeping in mind that this is a NOVEL and not purely an historical account, Weir manages to take the known facts and build an entertaining story of Lady Jane Grey. Many historical accounts have detailed the abuse Jane suffered from her parents, the manipulations and deceit but Weir helps to fill in the blanks by imagineing what Jane must have felt like and how she must have wanted to react (and ...

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

119 reviews
Susan Jeffers

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

Outtalk your negativity
"Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway" conveys that by taking positive control of our lives, letting go of resistance, and ultimately choosing one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, we can begin to realize that "pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the bigger underlying fear that comes with a feeling of helplessness." From a personal perspective, I have seen too many ...

The View from Castle Rock

2 reviews
Alice Munro

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

Alice Munro tells great short stories
Alice Munro is a wonderful Canadian writer. She has won numerous awards for her work in Canada, the United States and in the United Kingdom. The View from Castle Rock is her eleventh book of short stories-and it is terrific. Castle Rock is a high rocky outcropping in Scotland, not too far north of the Hadrian Wall that divides England and Scotland. From that vantage point one of Munro's ...

Engleby

13 reviews
Sebastian Faulks

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

Too many spoilers here
Unfortunately, several contributors here behave as if they're turning in "book reports", rather than providing a review. In doing so, they give away too many details, usually without spoiler alerts. Engleby's engaging story should be allowed to unfold without pre-knowledge, and I'm glad I didn't see those reviews before reading the book. I'm certain that you, too, will enjoy it more if ...

The Street Lawyer

1054 reviews
John Grisham

Random House UK Ltd, 1999

John Grisham
This was the first book I read by this author. I loved it. IT was so emotional! I could empathize for him. I felt like I was there in the room during the hostage part! When the guy's brain were on his face, I was disgusted along with him!!!! I could imagine it all happening! It was because this first book that I read was so good that I read (am reading) all his other books. HE HAS SO MANY!!! I ...

Garlic and Sapphires

123 reviews
Ruth Reichl

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

Delightful
A truly enjoyable read. Ruth Reichl is more than an epicurean, she is a poet. Her memoir takes you through an intensively personal account of what it means to become the foremost food critic in America. People who love food will salivate reading her descriptions of many varied types of cuisine she enjoys in its best form, People who don't dine out at fine dining restaurants very often could ...

The System of the World

65 reviews
Neal Stephenson

Random House Uk Ltd, 2005

Epic History Made Readable
This three-volume, 9-book set is, believe it or not, a *prequel* to his previous massive effort, Cryptonomicon. In the Baroque Cycle we find the ancestors of no less than NINE characters of that modern day tale of cryptography. But the Baroque trilogy covers much more ground. The fictional characters are used to take the reader through the lives of very real historical characters. The topics ...

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven

139 reviews
Fannie Flagg

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

I enjoyed this book so much this purchase is for a birthday gift
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) I read the other reviews after reading this book when it first hit the shelves. The bad reviews are those who want substance and deep literary content. I dont care about all that I like this book because it left me with smiles and was easy enough to read i could pick it up and read a chapter and put it down and feel like i had a ...

The Know-it-All

208 reviews
A. J. Jacobs

Random House Uk Ltd, 2006

Smart, smart, smart
I finished his Bible project book several weeks ago and needed to read something else of his. He's witty, humble, entertaining, and his self-deprecating humor is an attractive quality. I was disappointed to finish it, because I wanted it to continue, which is odd because there isn't a plot line. He gives interesting comments on new knowledge he's gained. It might seem a dull idea for a book, but ...

Building Agreement

38 reviews
Daniel Shapiro

Random House Uk Ltd, 2007

Guidebook for using emotions in negotiation
Far too many books treat negotiation as a rational process, as if the parties involved are calculating machines (or close to it). Authors Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro show that is not the case. They explain how emotions affect negotiating, and provide tools based on five core emotional concerns for dealing with powerful feelings at the negotiating table. This slender book is clearly written, ...

I Am Charlotte Simmons

598 reviews
Tom Wolfe

Random House Uk Ltd, 2005

Perhaps flawed but Oh So FUNNY!
If you take the journey through Tom Wolfe's book, Charlotte Simmons will be one of those characters that stick with you long after you put the book down. I was never under the impression that this book was intended to be an accurate account of university life and politics in the 2000's, although it appears that many of its readers seem to have the desire for it to be so, which may have left some ...

Norwegian Wood

158 reviews
Haruki Murakami

Random House Uk Ltd, 2003

Norwegian Wood
What can be said about this brilliant novel that has not been said before? Haruki Murakami is a genius. Norwegian Wood ranks amongst the top five best books I've ever read and each time I read it, I only love it more. An infinite number of stars.

Planet Earth

38 reviews
Mark Linfield

Random House Uk Ltd, 2006

spectacular view of God's creation
if you believe in God or not, i dare you to look at this book and not be in awe of nature. my husband and i enjoy looking at this book any seeing God's wonderous creation. anyone who has children should get this book. they probably won't read every word, but they will learn a lot from the pictures.

Against the Day

59 reviews
Thomas Pynchon

Random House Uk Ltd, 2006

S = K log W
Thomas Pynchon's epic novel, "Against the Day," is an odyssey in four dimensions, and more. The reader is introduced to this imaginary space during the first pages of chapter one. The boys' group, 'Chums of Chance,' discuss the altitude of their dirigible with the conclusion that if they keep going up into the lighted sky, they'll be going down. How can rising become falling? All of the key ...

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