Before I Die46 reviews
Jenny Downham

David Fickling Books, 2007

Be prepared to cry for hours!!

+ A reluctant reader's point of view
+ Good Book

Tessa is a cancer patient, whom the doctors could no longer find a cure. Before she breathe her last, she wrote up a list of things to do (eg. sex, break the law, drugs etc). The novel was written with a fluent flow, completely in a teenager's perspective. I finished it in a couple of hours, ...
  
  











  



  
Love the One You're With269 reviews
Emily Giffin

St. Martin's Press, 2008

Fabulous!

+ Nothing Tougher than the "Sexy Ex"
+ Beyond Chick Lit
+ pretty good.
  
  











  



  
Love Life7 reviews
Ray Kluun

St. Martin's Griffin, 2007

If you want to cry this book is for you

+ A book with the power to make you feel
+ Painfully honest

I borrowed this book from the library just on chance alone. I have never heard of it before but just grabbed a random book off the shelf. I plan to purchase this book! I enjoyed it thouroghly from beginning to it's heart wrenching end. I think I cried for the last 30 pages of the book. ...
  
  











  



  
Fatal Remedies11 reviews
Donna Leon

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

Donna Leon does it again in Fatal Remedies

+ Social Relevance
+ A Husband and Wife in Crisis
+ Donna Leon, Not a Gondola In Sight
+ The Post-America World
  
  











  



  
Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)832 reviews
Joseph Heller

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Lighthearted and comical, yet dark and meaningful

+ 25 words or less
+ Incredible
+ Great Characters Living With Death
  
  











  



  
The Beach House150 reviews
Jane Green

Viking Adult, 2008

The Beach House

+ Fun, beachy read

Good book - entertaining but not too deep. The perfect book to read at the beach!
  
  











  



  
The Host: A Novel684 reviews
Stephenie Meyer

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Beautiful Host

+ Suspense, love, and betrayal...
+ Interspecies Stockholm Syndrome

No vampires appear in Meyer's latest novel, instead an alien species invades our planet and eventually the bodies of the human population. In the end most of these host lose their personality but not all. Such is the case of the young human female Melanie. She fights to keep her own identity in ...
  
  











  



  
The Great Gatsby1123 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scribner, 1999

As American as apple pie...

+ What Can I Add?
+ The Summer of '22
+ The Great Gatsby
+ An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"
  
  











  



  
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel650 reviews
David Wroblewski

Ecco, 2008

From the inside out ...

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a rare and stunning rebuke to the ordinariness of many a lesser novel. Over nearly 600 pages, Wroblewski traces the slow arc of a boy and dog story, fairly reinventing the genre in the process. Countless passages ring with a heartbrearking purity and clarity, ...
  
  











  



  
Crow Lake
Mary Lawson

Vintage, 2003

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so compelling, and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled, that you sense at once that his is the real thing - a literary experience to relish, a book to lose yourself in, and a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario, where tragedy ...
  
  











  



  
To Kill a Mockingbird1762 reviews
Harper Lee

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002

Excelent Book!

+ There is a reason this book will be read for centuries and centuries...
+ Tequila Mockingbird
+ Great!!Love this book
+ LOVE THIS BOOK!
  
  











  



  
The Love of My Life1 review
Louise Douglas

Macmillan, 2008

Love of my Life - a beautiful love story

There are two love stories in this book which is mainly set in a small seaside resort in the North of England. The first real love story is between Olivia and her beloved husband Luca. They have been friends since childhood and their friendship develops into a secret teenage romance and then into a ...
  
  











  



  
This Charming Man: A Novel58 reviews
Marian Keyes

William Morrow, 2008

Another success for Marian Keyes... Kudos for this fantastic novel. I loved it!

+ Couldn't put it down!
+ Witty and real
+ Marian Keyes is superb but this is by far not her best
  
  











  



  
Crow Lake
Mary Lawson

Vintage, 2003

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so compelling, and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled, that you sense at once that his is the real thing - a literary experience to relish, a book to lose yourself in, and a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario, where tragedy ...
  
  











  



  
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel650 reviews
David Wroblewski

Ecco, 2008

From the inside out ...

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a rare and stunning rebuke to the ordinariness of many a lesser novel. Over nearly 600 pages, Wroblewski traces the slow arc of a boy and dog story, fairly reinventing the genre in the process. Countless passages ring with a heartbrearking purity and clarity, ...
  
  











  



  
Fatal Remedies11 reviews
Donna Leon

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

Donna Leon does it again in Fatal Remedies

+ Social Relevance
+ A Husband and Wife in Crisis
+ Donna Leon, Not a Gondola In Sight
+ The Post-America World
  
  











  



  
The Love of My Life1 review
Louise Douglas

Macmillan, 2008

Love of my Life - a beautiful love story

There are two love stories in this book which is mainly set in a small seaside resort in the North of England. The first real love story is between Olivia and her beloved husband Luca. They have been friends since childhood and their friendship develops into a secret teenage romance and then into a ...
  
  











  



  
This Charming Man: A Novel58 reviews
Marian Keyes

William Morrow, 2008

Another success for Marian Keyes... Kudos for this fantastic novel. I loved it!

+ Couldn't put it down!
+ Witty and real
+ Marian Keyes is superb but this is by far not her best
  
  











  



  
The Beach House150 reviews
Jane Green

Viking Adult, 2008

The Beach House

+ Fun, beachy read

Good book - entertaining but not too deep. The perfect book to read at the beach!
  
  











  



  
Before I Die46 reviews
Jenny Downham

David Fickling Books, 2007

Be prepared to cry for hours!!

+ A reluctant reader's point of view
+ Good Book

Tessa is a cancer patient, whom the doctors could no longer find a cure. Before she breathe her last, she wrote up a list of things to do (eg. sex, break the law, drugs etc). The novel was written with a fluent flow, completely in a teenager's perspective. I finished it in a couple of hours, ...