Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith153 reviews
Anne Lamott

Riverhead Hardcover, 2005

Finally Someone I Can Relate To!!!!

+ Anne Lamott Strikes Again
+ Anne is back

When I read this book, I felt like I could have written every word. Like Anne, I sometimes think that I make Christ drink himself to sleep at night. I wish she was my sister. Anne writes for us Christians who aren't afraid to say in really expressive terms what we really think and feel about our ...
  
  











  



  
Among the Missing (Ballantine Reader's Circle)22 reviews
Dan Chaon

Ballantine Books, 2002

Exceptional, haunting stories

+ Familiar and Expertly Written
+ Help - someone else is living in my head!
+ Beautiful Trips Across the Dark Terrain of the Soul
  
  











  



  
After the Quake: Stories40 reviews
Haruki Murakami

Vintage, 2003

A delightful collection of short stories....highly enjoyable, but without complete closure. (who cares?)

+ If These Stories Were Music....
+ Enjoyable but not as good as his novels

I enjoyed this book very much. While reading the stories I was completely engrossed in how they would end. In hindsight, I realize that a lot of the stories did not provide me with true closure, however, I enjoyed them so much that I hardly cared. Deep within each story I found a moral to take ...
  
  











  



  
How to Breathe Underwater37 reviews
Julie Orringer

Vintage, 2005

Girls Everywhere Will Enjoy This Book

+ This book will be on my "read again" list.......
+ So glad it found me!
+ worth the plunge
+ Great collection
  
  











  



  
If on a winter's night a traveler133 reviews
Italo Calvino

Harvest Books, 1982

Italo Calvino's Masterpiece

+ "I read, therefore it (the world) writes"
+ If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
+ Entertaining and Ingenious
+ Creative and Complex
  
  











  



  
The Point: And Other Stories5 reviews
Charles D'Ambrosio

Back Bay Books, 1996

this review was a long time coming...

+ the best
+ Great book of stories
+ ıı
  
  











  



  
Dry: A Memoir253 reviews
Augusten Burroughs

Picador, 2004

Excellent story telling

+ One of his best
+ Very nice
+ Astounding
+ Every emotion under the martini glass!
  
  











  



  
The Knife Thrower: and Other Stories14 reviews
Steven Millhauser

Vintage, 1999

My favorite contemporary writer at his very best

+ Lucid Dreams
+ Unbelievable: Millhauser is a genius
+ Beautiful prose
+ Moving, creepy and exhiliarating at the same time
  
  











  



  
The Fountainhead967 reviews
Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

Signet, 1996

More traditionally novelistic, tells the backstory of Atlas Shrugged

+ Fountainhead
+ Why Was This Book Written?
+ Fairy Tale
  
  











  



  
Running with Scissors: A Memoir821 reviews
Augusten Burroughs

Picador, 2003

Wonderful read for good laughs

+ A Childhood Undesired: A Review of Running with Scissors
+ A humorous romp through an unusual childhood
+ Liked the Movie Better
  
  











  



  
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor19 reviews
Joseph Campbell

New World Library, 2001

Awesome

+ The one and only Joseph Campbell
+ An Encyclopedic Knowledge of Mythology

Joseph Campbell puts things in such vivid perspective. It is good to have him helping us with images and metaphors like he does. While readers wouldn't stand for the likes of French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur on the subject of Myth, Campbell guides the bulk of general readership into the density of ...
  
  











  



  
The Lives of Rocks (.)6 reviews
Rick Bass

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Bass just gets better

+ A writer to further explore
+ In Pace with the Land
+ Great reading but a little dark
  
  











  



  
If on a winter's night a traveler133 reviews
Italo Calvino

Harvest Books, 1982

Italo Calvino's Masterpiece

+ "I read, therefore it (the world) writes"
+ If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
+ Entertaining and Ingenious
+ Creative and Complex
  
  











  



  
Dry: A Memoir253 reviews
Augusten Burroughs

Picador, 2004

Excellent story telling

+ One of his best
+ Very nice
+ Astounding
+ Every emotion under the martini glass!
  
  











  



  
The Lives of Rocks (.)6 reviews
Rick Bass

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Bass just gets better

+ A writer to further explore
+ In Pace with the Land
+ Great reading but a little dark
  
  











  



  
The Knife Thrower: and Other Stories14 reviews
Steven Millhauser

Vintage, 1999

My favorite contemporary writer at his very best

+ Lucid Dreams
+ Unbelievable: Millhauser is a genius
+ Beautiful prose
+ Moving, creepy and exhiliarating at the same time
  
  











  



  
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor19 reviews
Joseph Campbell

New World Library, 2001

Awesome

+ The one and only Joseph Campbell
+ An Encyclopedic Knowledge of Mythology

Joseph Campbell puts things in such vivid perspective. It is good to have him helping us with images and metaphors like he does. While readers wouldn't stand for the likes of French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur on the subject of Myth, Campbell guides the bulk of general readership into the density of ...
  
  











  



  
After the Quake: Stories40 reviews
Haruki Murakami

Vintage, 2003

A delightful collection of short stories....highly enjoyable, but without complete closure. (who cares?)

+ If These Stories Were Music....
+ Enjoyable but not as good as his novels

I enjoyed this book very much. While reading the stories I was completely engrossed in how they would end. In hindsight, I realize that a lot of the stories did not provide me with true closure, however, I enjoyed them so much that I hardly cared. Deep within each story I found a moral to take ...
  
  











  



  
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith153 reviews
Anne Lamott

Riverhead Hardcover, 2005

Finally Someone I Can Relate To!!!!

+ Anne Lamott Strikes Again
+ Anne is back

When I read this book, I felt like I could have written every word. Like Anne, I sometimes think that I make Christ drink himself to sleep at night. I wish she was my sister. Anne writes for us Christians who aren't afraid to say in really expressive terms what we really think and feel about our ...
  
  











  



  
Among the Missing (Ballantine Reader's Circle)22 reviews
Dan Chaon

Ballantine Books, 2002

Exceptional, haunting stories

+ Familiar and Expertly Written
+ Help - someone else is living in my head!
+ Beautiful Trips Across the Dark Terrain of the Soul