Freshwater Road24 reviews Denise Nicholas Agate Publishing, 2005 A True Five Stars + Freshwater Road + A Masterpiece! + Summer 1964: the personal is political             What the Dead Know: A Novel113 reviews Laura Lippman William Morrow, 2007 Great Psychological Suspense + a decent read + WOW! + Pleasurable reading             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 ...             The Dew Breaker45 reviews Edwidge Danticat Vintage, 2005 One of the great, great books of the new century + Agony and Atonement..... + Exquisite + Disturbing + "The Drew Breaker" is worthy of your attention.             Envy: A Novel19 reviews Kathryn Harrison Random House, 2005 Then Came Jennifer + Interesting + So messed up...and so good! + Too Thoughtful For Three Stars + Like nothing she's written before.             Heyday: A Novel46 reviews Kurt Andersen Random House, 2007 A "Forest Gump" Novel + A good look at America a decade & a half before the Civil War The movie Forrest Gump was a huge success, even though Forrest ends up in the White House for Congressional Medal of Honor award, Ping Pong Master, etc. Talk about unbelievable coincidence(s)! What made the movie "work" is it was enjoyable to watch with plenty of historical stuff, and great ...             Then We Came to the End: A Novel217 reviews Joshua Ferris Little, Brown and Company, 2007 I Laughed, I Cried - Three Thoughts + Adperson's anomie + Funny, fantastic, tragic book (and gorgeous dust jacket design!) + Funny, and a little bit of drama + One of the best you'll ever read!             Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture147 reviews Annie Proulx Scribner, 2005 A+ + It's a story of love that can never be... not sex. + As beautiful as it gets + Great reading! + You Won't Want it to End             The Accidental59 reviews Ali Smith Anchor, 2007 great book + Into the Minds of... + Nothing accidental about it, except maybe Amber i loved this novel of a mysterious woman who arrives at the vacation house of a british academic family and with ingenuity and bravery challenges and heals the broken life of each of her dysfunctional hosts. the book is loosely based on the pier paolo pasolini's 1968 film "teorama"; but where ...             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 ...             Wolf Point10 reviews Edward Falco Unbridled Books, 2005 A black heart, but all heart, and very fine + Some very fine writing, and a gripping story + Moved and stunned by an incredibly good writer While I've written about this novel for print, praising not just WOLF POINT but a number of Falco's fictions (in hypertext as well as on the page), I care enough about this author and accomplishment to honor them both again in this medium. Falco's latest novel is superb. It erupts with from its ...             Good Grief202 reviews Lolly Winston Grand Central Publishing, 2005 A great read + Great (an unusual) Bereavement Support Tool + Highly Recommended! + Loved it! + one of my favorite books of all time             The Red Tent1437 reviews Anita Diamant Picador, 1998 Literary Bread and Water- Will Make You Feel Alive + A must read. + The Red Tent + wonderfully engrossing + Pagan women in an early Jewish world             Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel605 reviews Lisa See Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 Phenomenal Women Book Club (Houston, TX) + Buy this book! + Snowflower and the Secret Fan + SNOWFLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN             Something Borrowed382 reviews St. Martin's Griffin, 2005 One of the Best Contemporary Romance I've read!!! + Cute adult chick-lit with more substance than fluff. + Don't read before your wedding! + such a page turner             The Last Town on Earth: A Novel85 reviews Thomas Mullen Random House, 2006 The Last Town on Earth: A Novel + The Last Town on Earth + great book + I got really immersed in this one             The Life You Longed For: A Novel13 reviews Maribeth Fischer Touchstone, 2007 This would make a great movie! + Best novel I've read in ten years. + Maribeth Fischer is a genius I literally could not put this novel down. It grabs you on page one and never lets you go, never lets you relax. It procedes with high emotional intensity to the end. This is a novel that teaches -- about mitochondrial disease, about Munchausenn's, about the failings of the child protective ...             The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream1289 reviews Paulo Coelho HarperSanFrancisco, 1995 Inspiring + Actually life-changing + Overall, a good read Anyone unsure of what they want to do after high school should read this book.             Zorro: A Novel129 reviews Isabel Allende HarperCollins, 2005 Zorro...Zorro...Zorro...the One I Remember from Childhood + What Can I Say? + Zorro + Great Zorro             Boomsday90 reviews Christopher Buckley Twelve, 2007 Insanely Hilarious + Almost too true to be funny - but it still is + Killing yourself for the good of your country + Very entertaining...