Three Junes229 reviews Julia Glass Arrow Books Ltd, 2003 Entertaining, Insightful..a Beautiful Novel + Glad I picked it back up!! + As close to real life as fiction ever gets. + Close to Home             Cold Sassy Tree219 reviews Olive Ann Burns Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1986 good service, good condition + A Great Place to Re-Visit + Great book + Wonderful depiction of a small southern town in the early 1900's + Perspectives on death             In the Lake of the Woods189 reviews Tim O'Brien Mariner Books, 2006 Mystery and depth + The mystery of the human heart + interesting... another hit from O'Brien + In the Mind of PTSD             The Seven Sisters24 reviews Margaret Drabble Harvest Books, 2003 Real Life made Fascinating + Greatness here + best Drabble book so far + Finding the Super in the Natural             The Last Girls: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)67 reviews Lee Smith Ballantine Books, 2003 "The Girls" meet "The Group" Can events experienced early in women's lives really have an effect, either constructive or noxious, on the rest of their lives? This is the primary question address by author Lee Smith in her novel The Last Girls. In 1966, five Southern college "girls" take a rafting trip down the Mississippi ...             Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books361 reviews Azar Nafisi Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003 A tribute to the human spirit + Memorable + cinsandiego + Pleasantly surprised             The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition109 reviews Eve Ensler Villard, 2000 Ensler is a woman warrior + Amazing! + Thumbs up. + Not for every woman- but definitely for me!             Still Life With Insects (A Graywolf Discovery)4 reviews Brian Kiteley Graywolf Pr, 1993 Perfect + A Caring Friend + Miniature, not minimal I find it difficult to write an intelligent review for this book. It is one of my favorite books - I bring it with me when I travel and when I meet someone who I care about, I give them this book to read. The measure of a good book for me is its ability to be read in different moods and give ...             A Trust Betrayed (Margaret Kerr of Perth)14 reviews Candace Robb Mysterious Press, 2002 An enjoyable historical mystery + Candace Robb historical novels + An Excellent Read and Looking Forward to More I enjoyed this novel and I am looking forward to the sequel. I found the setting to be very convincing. One of the criterion for a book being readable and engrossing is that I am surprised to look up from the page and find that it is not a wet, chilly spring outside, it's the middle of summer and ...             The Distinguished Guest16 reviews Sue Miller Harper Perennial, 1999 All in the shading ... + Unsaid vs. said 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 Dante Club: A Novel328 reviews Matthew Pearl Ballantine Books, 2006 Spectacular Mystery + The Poet's step is quiet and solemn Three unlikely sleuths, the real-life poets Lowell, Holmes, and Longfellow, investigate a series of brilliant murders inspired by Dante's Inferno, which is at the present of the story being translated to English by Longfellow himself So this means the murderer is amongst them somehow. A sheer ...             My Antonia267 reviews Willa Cather Mariner Books, 1995 Lovely to revisit this classic on audio + Beautiful writing, but the lack of plot means it's not for everyone + Enduring Story + Beautiful new edition             Buddha's Little Finger11 reviews Victor Pelevin Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001 With books like this, who needs drugs? + Life is but a dream + Russian Magic Realism with a Buddhist slant For Russian speakers: Definitely read this book (in Russian, obviously) if you liked Kafka. Read it if you ever felt curious about drugs. (This book should be classified as a "Schedule A" substance. :) Stay away from it if you like books that make sense. For English speakers: It's a great book, ...             The Kite Runner2517 reviews Khaled Hosseini Riverhead Trade, 2004 Ki + Wonderful + Fantastic + powerful and moving + Could Not Put it Down             You Shall Know Our Velocity122 reviews Dave Eggers Vintage, 2003 Like My Mind on Paper + Undoubtedly compelling + A moving, living experience of a book I just finished the book for the second time. It is probably not the greatest book that I have ever read, but it is definitely my favorite. And that is what matters. I could read nothing but this book, over and over, for the rest of my life. I would be completely satisfied in doing so. Eggers ...             The Spectator Bird (Contemporary American Fiction)25 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 Perfect, Funny, and Wise + To Have and to Hold + Stegner hits all his concerns here + Every word counts             Bel Canto (P.S.)584 reviews Ann Patchett Harper Perennial, 2005 A Song of Love + Loved the book, just not the ending + Awesome! You won't be able to put it down! + Almost spectacular             Middlesex: A Novel854 reviews Jeffrey Eugenides Picador, 2002 You Are Such a Flirt + One of my favorites! + A Wonderfuf Read + From a pediatric Urology Nurse's view point, well done             A Million Little Pieces1833 reviews James Frey Anchor, 2005 Read it and make your own opinion. + Great Read! Fiction or not, this book was beautifully written, insightful and hopeful. Do not let the controversy stray you away from giving it a chance - it is an amazing, touching story.             The Twentieth Wife: A Novel83 reviews Indu Sundaresan Washington Square Press, 2003 From Persia with Love + Looking forward to the next one + An engrossing read about an interesting time and place + Good read of Mughal India