Life of Pi1841 reviews Yann Martel Harvest Books, 2003 no words can describe how good this is! + engaging, imaginative, thought-provoking it breaks down all barriers of imagination and offers a breathtaking understanding of life through a story of simple transition from innocence to maturity...something each adult reader can relate to. be prepared for the more graphic details in the second and third section of the book which are a ...             Suite Francaise374 reviews Irene Nemirovsky Vintage, 2007 One of the best, by far. + Unfinished masterpiece + Wanted more and more!! .such a tragedy she is gone... + Subtle, Powerful, Unfinished - An Astonishing Survival             The Queen's Fool: A Novel (Boleyn)201 reviews Philippa Gregory Touchstone, 2004 A MUST READ + Captivating + Almost as good as The Other Boelyn Girl! + Great book!!             The Known World295 reviews Edward P. Jones HarperPerennial, 2004 Gorgeous + Riveting! You'll never forget it. + Gripping + Difficult to read but well worth it             Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (Revised and Enhanced)6 reviews Parley P. Pratt Jr., Scot Facer Proctor, ... Deseret Book Co, 2000 A Great Read. + Family History in the making + Must See the Footnotes + Great autobiograpahy + Excellent Prose and Poetry Tells the Story of the LDS Church             The Memory Keeper's Daughter873 reviews Kim Edwards Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 Freeze Frame + What a memory!!! On a snowy winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his twins and makes a split-second decision that forever alters theh lives of everyone involved. When it is apparent to him that his daughter has Down's Syndrome, he asks the nurse to take her to an institution, without telling ...             Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)2795 reviews Stephenie Meyer Little, Brown Young Readers, 2006 Hook, line and sinker! + most awesome book ever I'm sitting at my desk at work rocking back and forth in my chair, partly because of a caffeine buzz, but mostly because of the anticipation I feel about the Twilight movie coming out this Friday. I'm 32 years old and I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm absolutely in love with the entire series. ...             Digging to America162 reviews Anne Tyler Knopf, 2006 slice of life + wonderful audio version + Well I liked it. + Multi-Culturalism at its Finest             Hanna's Daughters58 reviews Marianne Fredriksson Orion mass market paperback, 2002 A Woman's Legacy + Perceptive generational saga This book is a bit difficult at first to get into. The beginning is a bit jumpy and some of the characters share the same name making it at times confusing. With all that said, stick it out and you can't help but enjoy seeing the legacy a women can leave. Although it is rooted in Scandinavian ...             Thunderstruck152 reviews Erik Larson Three Rivers Press, 2007 An Artful Reconstruction of History + "More than a saga of violence" A wonderful, exciting, and vivid look at what life may have been like for and in the time of Guglielmo Marconi, (often cited as the inventor of but, more accurately, the first to successfully commercialize wireless communication). The author painstakingly reconstructs many events in Marconi's life ...             The Illuminator54 reviews Brenda Rickman Vantrease St. Martin's Griffin, 2005 Wonderful first novel, a mix of tragic romance and history + Original Subject + B+ I enjoyed THE ILLUMINATOR and I will definitely pick up the author's second book. It's an historical novel told mostly (but not entirely) from a woman's viewpoint. There's romance (not explicit) and familial relationships as well. The setting involves the late 1300s when John of Gaunt ruled for ...             On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)629 reviews Jack Kerouac Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 Kerouac's Masterpiece + A True Classic This is by far Kerouac's best work. It details his adventures with Neil Cassiday in way only Kerouac could. This book defines the beat movement and defines, for me at least how the world was long before I was born. Being only 20 years old I cannot imagine hitch hiking across the country, in the ...             Waterland59 reviews Graham Swift Vintage, 1992 Swifts Finest Hour + Like a Seinfeld Episode + challenging, exhilirating novel This is the book that made Graham Swift, and deservedly so. Swift brilliantly evokes the East Anglian fen district where the bulk of the novel is set, and critics are right in saying he rivals Hardy's Wessex and Dicken's London in his achievement. The story is told in first person narrative ...             A Christmas Carol16 reviews Charles Dickens Candlewick, 2006 Gorgeous illustrations! + One of the pillars of the Christmas season + Excellent quality book + Revisiting a Classic Christmas Story + Beautiful addition to any family library             Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption (P.S.)137 reviews Paulo Coelho Harper Perennial, 2006 "About living like it is the last day of your life" + wonderful book + Inner madness + Decide to read this. + I read this in the book store             Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)34 reviews William Makepeace Thackeray Penguin Classics, 2003 "The Rise, Fall and Partial Rise Again of a High-Grade Whore" + Time-consuming, but worth it + Magnificent novel, frustrating edition + funny story with some funny names             The Sun Also Rises478 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 2006 Bitter sweet + Interesting read + The Sun Does Indeed Look Bright I'm Jake. Jacob Barnes. American journalist. Living in Paris. I send off my cables. I work hard for a couple of hours. I put the stories in big manila envelopes. And send them out. That brings in the money. French? I speak French. Spanish? I speak Spanish. Don't think I've got it made. ...             The Fifth Child46 reviews Doris Lessing Vintage, 1989 The monster within + Hard to Place + Enduring fate + The Fifth Child             The Shipping News447 reviews E. Annie Proulx Scribner, 1994 Good News + Sequel please + Perfect + Wonderful Writing             The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America770 reviews Erik Larson Vintage, 2004 Time machine + Highly Rated for History Fans + A bit tedious at times, but worth a read - esp if you like architectural history This book makes me wish I had a time machine to go back and see the White City in person. I work in downtown Chicago and I walk by many of the buildings described in the book every day. I find it fascinating to think of what Chicago must have been like in 1893. Of course the story of HH Holmes is ...