Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story11 reviews Rachel Kadish Houghton Mifflin, 2006 Insightful Fuel for a Witty Intellect + From S. Krishna's Books + Excellent!!! About six pages in, I realized I needed to keep a pen handy while reading this book. By the time I was through, I had more favorite lines circled than some of the books I read for undergrad. Fueled by her career, satiated on books, and supported by trusted friends, Tracy Farber had turned her back ...             American Cookery: A Novel2 reviews Laura Kalpakian St. Martin's Press, 2006 Another beautiful tapestry from a master weaver. + American Cookery: A Novel American Cookery has everything. Laura Kalpakian's usual artistry with her characters, a magical story that compel and is never quiet. Eden Douglas is a wonderfully complex young woman, and she takes you from her more than unusually dysfunctional (pathetic and hilarious) family in Idaho, which even ...             Tangerine Dream84 reviews Ken Douglas, Jack Stewart Bootleg Press, 2003 Shades of a Past President and his Problem + A bit of a stretch, but pretty good + Very Good Book Club Pick United States Senator Stacy Sterling is running for president. He's also running for some kind of record with young hookers that his newscaster wife doesn't know about. She's in New Zealand, he's in San Francisco. She's on vacation with her daughter Dylan. He's on vacation too, only the child he's ...             The Splendor of Silence: A Novel14 reviews Indu Sundaresan Atria, 2006 A GREAT READ + The Splendor of Silence I highly recommend this book. It is a book that returns to the present occasionally, but not so quickly that you get lost. I TOTALLY loved this book and the characters were so alive. i can only add that I am an avid reader and I would never give a book high ratings, if it did not deserve them. ...             The Mists of Avalon885 reviews Marion Zimmer Bradley Ballantine Books, 1982 Convinced me I am really a faerie + The Mists of Avalon + Best novel ever, literally. + WOW             Lily's Ghost2 reviews Cheryl Drake Harris Delta, 2006 Lily's Ghost + Heartbreaking reminders This is a beautiful first novel, on an important subject. It brings to mind images of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'Yellow Wallpaper', and Margaret Atwood's 'Surfacing'. It deals with the madness and aftermath of war, the unique subject of the experience of a female doctor serving in Vietnam, and ...             At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances27 reviews Alexander Mccall Smith Anchor, 2004 Loved this book + Disappinted + A funny, character driven comic novel + Delightful eccentricity             The Honk and Holler Opening Soon192 reviews Billie Letts Grand Central Publishing, 1999 A Great Read + A pleasant story, but not what the name entailed + Almost a 5 star .... + A book about people + A pleasure to read!             Mr. Thundermug: A Novel5 reviews Cornelius Medvei HarperCollins, 2007 an auspicious beginning + If You Were a Talking Baboon + Great story and enjot it as such + Mr. Thundermug             Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty17 reviews Tim Sandlin Riverhead Hardcover, 2007 The Bookschlepper Recommends + A new discovery + The Scariest Humor Ever Guy Fontaine is an Okie (although not from Muskogee) who, in 2022, finds himself in assisted living on the California coast with the 70- and 80-year olds of Haight Ashbury and the Summer of Love. It only takes him a few days to learn to appreciate the finer points of sex, drugs and rock `n roll. ...             A Rose for the Crown: A Novel44 reviews Anne Easter Smith Touchstone, 2006 a rose for the crown + not your father's Richard III Excellent well researched historical fiction. I found it hard to put down and was sorry when it was finished.             Digging to America162 reviews Anne Tyler Knopf, 2006 slice of life + wonderful audio version + Well I liked it. + Multi-Culturalism at its Finest             Girls in Peril: A Novella (A Tin House New Voice)4 reviews Karen Lee Boren Tin House Books, 2006 A Wonderful Book + Beautiful + Graceful and Well Written I'm not sure what the Publishers Weekly reveiewer meant when she said that Ms. Boren's book lacked the "elegance" of Jeffery Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides: the only thing that Ms. Boren lacks that Eugenides posseses is the cachet of a big name. Both writers set out to mythologize the tipping ...             Salaam, Paris12 reviews Kavita Daswani Plume, 2006 Not bad, but not great either I'm a fan of Kavita Daswani's work...She manages to write light-hearted chick lit that's also heartwarming. With that said, I did not find Salaam, Paris to be as engrossing and readable as her other two books. I found it implausible that a character as meek, sheltered, and traditional as Tanaya ...             The Royal Ghosts: Stories1 review Samrat Upadhyay Mariner Books, 2006 Subdued faith in human nature The well-written stories in this book are about the difficulty of understanding emotions brought up by complications in relationships with family, friends, and lovers. The protagonists go about their ordinary lives, trying to make sense of the people around them as well as of what is going on ...             Traveler18 reviews Ron McLarty Viking Adult, 2007 McLarty Scores Again + Fantastic character novel + Five Star Review for Traveler Ron McLarty has done it again. Ron McLarty, author of The Memory of Running, writes of wonderfully human protagonists whose lives and experiences resonate with the reader. Jono Riley is an aging bartender and part-time actor with a wonderful girlfriend and a fear of commitment. The death of ...             The Road (Oprah's Book Club)1608 reviews Cormac McCarthy Vintage Books, 2007 A Road To Treasure + Carrying the Fire Through The Darkness You know who they are. Those people that get upset when stories are told that aren't a sugar coated version of the world, stories that seem like they were written by authors who truly believe that ignoring cold, hard reality is the best medicine. Cormac McCarthy is not one of those authors. At ...             Beginner's Luck: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)59 reviews Laura Pedersen Ballantine Books, 2003 Quickwitted sarcastic humor + CHARMING FIRST NOVEL SPAWNS GREAT SERIES + We should all be so lucky to find a home like this! + A fast, fun read. + BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE for an older teenage audience             Restless: A Novel47 reviews William Boyd Bloomsbury USA, 2006 Part historical novel, part spy thriller - great story! + First Rate + very interesting book + Best Book I've Read in a Long Time + Good entertaining             Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories14 reviews Deborah Eisenberg Picador, 2007 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 ...