James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon23 reviews Julie Phillips Picador, 2007 Heartwrenching + most fascinating bio I've read in years + An Investigation of Gender and Writing in the 20th Century + very strange life, fascinating reading             Hattie Big Sky33 reviews Kirby Larson Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2006 Hattie Big Sky + Best historical fiction I've read in 10 years. + A Wonderful Read + Fall into the time period!             Flight of the Goose30 reviews Lesley Thomas Far Eastern Press, 2005 A Mesmerizing Story and a Timely Tale + Top of the world + Extraordinary! + Intriguing and Intensely Detailed Story of the Far North             Spook Country146 reviews William Gibson Putnam Adult, 2007 Brilliant, but not perfect + The Future is Now and Gibson is still there! + The pleasure of finding things out The good: This book has some brilliant characters which ultimately intertwine around a caper based climax at the end. The writing is clever and a joy to read, and paints a very realistic and plausible world, once you get past the first chapter, which was like another reviewer mentioned like wading ...             What On Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and Affirmations11 reviews Robert Fulghum St. Martin's Press, 2007 Classic Fulghum + A book of spirituality cleverly disguised as cute essays + EXCELLENT READ + More to think and laugh about + Lightened the Day             Dark Alphabet (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)2 reviews Jennifer Maier Southern Illinois University Press, 2006 Dark Alphabet by Jennifer Maier + The Music of Words Jennifer Maier is hilarious. The imagination at work behind the poetry in her first collection, Dark Alphabet, is voracious and supple. It expands the world from the tiniest points into a universe bright and dark with meaning. It yields sly-eyed, delightful images that burn in the mind long after ...             The Long Walk Home: A Novel21 reviews Will North Shaye Areheart Books, 2007 Loved this book + Fun along the long walk + True Joy I bought this book based on the cover along with a brief description. It was so much better than described. I did not want the book to end. It was a mystry and love story all in one. The love scenes were described so beautifully and romatically I was surprised that they were written by a man. I ...             End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery (Aurelio Zen Mysteries)12 reviews Michael Dibdin Pantheon, 2007 Zen or the Art of Poking Fun with a Serious Face + Dibdin masterfully weaves story and setting together. Again. + A sad farewell This is another obituary for a Brit who invented a serial hero worth knowing. His Italian cop Aurelio Zen, originally from Venice, but assigned all over Italy in his not so illustrious career, is my bronze medal winner (after Jack Aubrey and Harry Flashman). Michael Dibdin died last year. He was ...             Into the Wild1192 reviews Jon Krakauer Anchor, 1997 Chase von, guess they have this book two places on here.... + A mystery and tragedy told well + A Character Study Disguised as a Bestseller + Troubled man takes on the Wild - and loses             Grand & Humble13 reviews Brent Hartinger HarperTeen, 2006 Courtesy of Teens Read Too + Excellent + Grand and Humble Review by Nick + Compelling, adventerous, and psychological + Great book, great twist!             The Littlest Hitler - Stories8 reviews Ryan Boudinot Counterpoint, 2006 It's Out There! + Twisted, Very Twisted I am working on the 7th story from this book, which I couldn't put it down at all today. After reading some of the bad reviews of this book, I decided to add my two cents. This book is for free thinkers that can grasp a witty weirdo grip on this pseudo-reality marvel. I think there's a small part ...             Spectral Waves Madeline DeFrees Copper Canyon Press, 2006 "DeFrees is committed to rigorous, even ritualistic, forms and a dense economy and precision of language."- Poetry Brimming with characteristic charm and careful regard, Madeline DeFrees ranges in scope and scale from sonnets about Elvis, a poem-cycle about sculptor Henry Moore, and lyrics about cataracts. DeFrees's poems are filled with daily encounters-birds outside the window, trips to ...             The Zero: A Novel (P.S.)18 reviews Jess Walter Harper Perennial, 2007 Makes you think! + A devastating novel From the opening scene, when ex-cop Brian Remy wakes up to discover he's shot himself in the head - accidental or not we never do find out - this book slips and lurches with deadpan irony between the real and the surreal. It is immediately post 9/11, a day never actually `named' but instead ...             Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen16 reviews Lesley Hazleton Doubleday, 2007 Hazleton just keeps getting better + An Excellent Historical Reinterpretation of Jezebel, by someone who actually knows Hebrew. + An Intellectual Delight Jezebel is a captivating read, but more importantly, it illuminates a period of human history fraught with religious prejudices, and it does it in the best way possible--by exploring the original documents. Hazleton's research was exhaustive and everything she says is explained in the context of ...             No Starling (Pacific Northwest Poetry)4 reviews Nance Van Winckel University of Washington Press, 2007 No Starling is Brilliant + A brief yet evocative selection of poems + Distinguishing the Everlasting from the Eternal + Timely & Compelling             Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother9 reviews Lesley Hazleton Bloomsbury USA, 2005 A + Mary: Finally flesh and blood I read Mary like a house on fire. Truly, this work is a gem of intellectual courage, imaginative risk taking, penetrating scholarship, and spell-binding writing -- a beautiful evocation that makes those Catholic school plaster statues of Mary leap out of their alcoves and into spirited life. This ...             Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost ...7 reviews Lyanda Lynn Haupt Little, Brown and Company, 2006 Beautifully written + The Meaning of the "Beagle" + Amazing.... + Pleasant & enlightening + Another inspiring book from Haupt!             Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant: And Other Poems6 reviews Jack Prelutsky Greenwillow, 2006 Excellent Book for my classroom + Fun to read aloud + Great language + Enjoyable for children and adults, great humor + I Just LOVE Jack Prelutsky!             Little Tiny Teeth (A Gideon Oliver Mystery)12 reviews Aaron Elkins Berkley Hardcover, 2007 Fantastic Mystery + Good classic mystery + Best Elkins book since Dead Men's Hearts + best one yet             Dear Ghosts,: Poems4 reviews Tess Gallagher Graywolf Press, 2006 The Best of American Poetry + She just keeps on getting better + Featuring poems in which ghosts of the past are summoned and discoursed with in the present day You can do nothing better for yourself than to read Dear Ghosts,. Tess Gallagher has always been among the best of American poets. Her most recent work continues to add jewels to the crown of great poetry. As the poems engage us, we become aware why poetry is so necessary to the human spirit. ...