My Heartbeat26 reviews Garret Freymann-Weyr Houghton Mifflin, 2002 A Great Big Wow + A Classical Romance With A Surprising Twist! + Amazing read! I come down on the side of squeamish when a story veers into fourteen-year-old girls having sex. Many fourteen-year-old girls, of course, will think it's nifty that an author can limn exactly what's going on in their minds: the confusion, divided loyalties, the extreme hotness of a sixteen-year-old ...             Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory Linda Spalding Pantheon, 2007 Murder. Hawaii’s beautiful Hanauma Bay. The suspects: two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Maryann Acker, a pretty young Mormon woman, is eighteen. William, just out of prison, is twenty-eight. The crime is robbery, ending in a killing. In 1982, Linda Spalding, a mainlander herself, living in Hawaii, is chosen as a juror for Maryann’s trial there. Surprisingly the chief witness ...             Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories26 reviews Rebecca Barry Simon & Schuster, 2007 Bittersweet Barflies + Imperfect People in an Imperfect World, Doing the Best That We Can + Great Depiction of Upstate New York + a 5-star book with a 3-star end + A Must Read             A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel13 reviews Xiaolu Guo Nan A. Talese, 2007 "The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday" + Fascinating 5-star read + Loved it! + First-rate book, first-rate artist, delicious read + Recommended             Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World (P.S.)5 reviews Nicholas Guyatt Harper Perennial, 2007 Believe It or Not, Prophecy Affects You + The End Of The World As They Know It (And They Feel Fine) + The phrophetic world is a murky world + Bringing on the crazy! A character study             The Spellman Files: A Novel86 reviews Lisa Lutz Simon & Schuster, 2007 Fun and funny San Francisco-based novel + Great new Series for Evonovich Fanis + Lots of great story lines + the Spellman family + Genre bender             Finding H.F.: A Novel9 reviews Julia Watts Alyson Books, 2001 My first, + Excellent + Excellent! + Finding H.F Review + A Wonderful Coming-of-Age Novel             Crooked Little Vein: A Novel52 reviews Warren Ellis William Morrow, 2007 Subversive counter-culture satire of detective genre -- great fun! + A disturbingly shocking journey into the limits of bad taste. + warren ellis is awesome Having read some of Ellis's graphic novels, I knew to expect a richly imagined urban landscape filled with the extremes of human behavior, and I wasn't disappointed. By utilzing the genre roadmap of the detective novel, Ellis is able to give free reign to his wonderfully absurdist digressions and ...             Life As We Knew It61 reviews Susan Beth Pfeffer Harcourt Children's Books, 2006 A "Diary of Anne Frank" for the Apocalypse.. + What If.....???? + An Unforgettable Story + Great read             Whitethorn Woods (Vintage)84 reviews Maeve Binchy Anchor, 2008 traditions change, too + Heartwarming, Enjoyable Read + A Very Good Read + Echoes of my Irish parents             Heartsick85 reviews Chelsea Cain St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007 Best novel I've read in years! Thirsting for more Cain. + Great read + Deeply Flawed Characters and Mind-Numbing Murders + Heart Sick             Tripping to Somewhere10 reviews Kristopher Reisz Simon Pulse, 2006 Brilliant... a Must Read + Good Read-Bad Title + Edgy Teen Fantasy + 5 stars isn't enough! + In Gaiman style             99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale5 reviews David Wellington Three Rivers Press, 2007 A bloody superb tale. + Great read. Had me hooked. Better than 13 Bullets. + Better than 13 Bullets + Awesome read! + Creepy vamps             The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde, Book 1)157 reviews Cecilia Dart-Thornton Aspect, 2002 A disappointment after its terrific beginning This book has a terrific beginning in close third-person as a mute, amnesia-stricken youth with a disfigured face escapes imprisonment. He is grudgingly taken in by an old serving woman in a huge manor-tower reminiscent of Mervin Peake's Gormenghast series with its elaborate hierarchies of ...             Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, Book 1)90 reviews Lois Mcmaster Bujold Eos, 2007 Bujold- need I say more? This woman can write. I have never read anything of hers that I didn't like, and this is no exception. I am interested to see where she is going with this series.             Devilish7 reviews Maureen Johnson Razorbill, 2007 Fast-paced and funny + Hooked Immediately + Devilish + amazing + Great Twists, Great Turns, Great Writing             Ceremony in Death (In Death)48 reviews J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts Berkley, 1997 Another Winner! + Going Deeper + Ceremony in Death + revue + Great             Peeps50 reviews Scott Westerfeld Razorbill, 2006 Sing Happy Birthday + Peeps: More then just sugar-coated marshmallows + Original, sharp and fun! + Peeps             Whitethorn Woods (Vintage)84 reviews Maeve Binchy Anchor, 2008 traditions change, too + Heartwarming, Enjoyable Read + A Very Good Read + Echoes of my Irish parents             A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel13 reviews Xiaolu Guo Nan A. Talese, 2007 "The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday" + Fascinating 5-star read + Loved it! + First-rate book, first-rate artist, delicious read + Recommended