Ignorance: A Novel37 reviews Milan Kundera Harper Perennial, 2003 You can't go home again + another persons shoes + Nostalgia ("nostos"-return, "algos"-suffering) + Nostalgia             Aura (Cara y Cruz) (Cara y Cruz)50 reviews Carlos Fuentes Norma S A Editorial, 2008 One Good Turn... + Weird + Riveting + Bilingual Edition....Beautiful Story....Excellent translation + Simple and Powerful Novella             Come Closer33 reviews Sara Gran Berkley Trade, 2006 I was drawn in straight to the end + Not scary but a little creepy... + we all need a quicky every once and again. + Very Scary + Good read             Crampton Hodnet7 reviews Barbara Pym Moyer Bell, 2000 The best book ever written, well it might be, who knows + Timeless Reading Pleasure + Perfectly Pym I completely disagree with the 'one star' reviewer. He or she hit the nail on the head with the observation that it was completely unfair that the 36 year old curate gets a nineteen year old girl while the 36 year old woman is an isolated spinster. That's exactly what is great about this book. ...             The Solitaire Mystery: a novel about family and destiny115 reviews Jostein Gaarder Berkley Trade, 1997 Wide Eyed Wonder + A Modern Fairy Tale + The Sticky Bun Mystery + A beautiful, heartwarming story of redemption through the ages + BUT HOW?             The Haunting of L.: A Novel13 reviews Howard Norman Picador, 2003 EXCELLENT PAGE TURNER + wonderfully strange + Spitit photos and adultery + read all in the troligy!             The Secret History536 reviews Donna Tartt Vintage, 2004 A Very Powerful Novel + This is a great book - a must read for the winter. + Well written page turner + The Heart of the History + A Modern Classical Tragedy             Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu11 reviews J. Sheridan LeFanu Dover Publications, 1964 Deceased judges, a vampire, & a nasty supernatural monkey + Best Gothic Tales of Yestreday that Still Thrills Today's Ghost-Story Readers + TERRIFIC STORIES + Bar none the best..... + Not your standard ghostly fare             The Brothers of Glastonbury (Roger the Chapman Medieval Mysteries)5 reviews Kate Sedley St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001 Sedley has done it again! + Excellent entry in a great series + GROOM DOES A STAGE LEFT + A good medieval mystery             Masks of the Illuminati18 reviews Robert A. Wilson Dell, 1990 A Masterpiece and A Good Place To Become A Robert Anton Wilson Fan + An engrossing occult mystery + 2 Hunchbacks, Followed by 7 Soldiers, Followed by 20 Hunchbacks! This is one of the most informative and thrilling books I've ever read in my life. It's a wonderful place to start for anyone who's heard of Wilson and wants to hear learn more. This novel is also exceptional for those who want to find out about Aleister Crowley from an informed opinion, someone ...             The List of Seven85 reviews Mark Frost Avon, 1994 Excellent! + Terrific book, a little slow in the middle + Victoriana at its best + Great - Couldn't put it down             The Bestiary15 reviews Nicholas Christopher Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2008 An intelligent and gripping collision of mythology and biography + Fabulous monsters The Bestiary is Nicholas Christopher's fifth novel, and like its predecessors, it's full of that peculiar magic that springs from the unexpected intrusion of lost mythologies into everyday life. The novel sketches out part of the life story of its central character, Xeno Atlas, as an intimate ...             Stone Virgin6 reviews Barry Unsworth W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 Venice, Art, Passion all in one book + Haunted by art + Read it and find yourself intrigued! A great web of stories that makes you really think of the power that people exert over others. Especially the power of this stone virgin and how she affected (affects) those who come in contact with her. Will history continue to repeat itself? Beautifully written.             The Book of Lost Things: A Novel116 reviews John Connolly Washington Square Press, 2007 Gone missing + Great Read + Every Fairy Tale You've Ever Read + enchanting tale for grown ups + Well worth the time.             Five Mile House: A Novel33 reviews Karen Novak Bloomsbury USA, 2004 Well worth it. + Impressive Novel + A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN GHOST STORY AND IMPRESSIVE DEBUT NOVEL... + Flawed, but shows potential             In the Country of Last Things. (Lernmaterialien)28 reviews Paul Auster, Gerd Ulmer, ... Diesterweg, 2001 The Power of Hope + Horror tale with a twist + Austere Auster As Always + Live and let write in the "Country"             The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime93 reviews Jasper Fforde Viking Adult, 2005 Mr. Fforde's marvelous little gem. + Over Easy is Hard to Forget + A really good, funny mystery! Jasper Fforde made his name in the literary world with his very popular "Thursday Next" series of books following the eponymous heroine on a series of fantastically convoluted adventures in the world of metafiction. There are some connections between the characters in this novel and characters who ...             The Scions of Shannara (The Heritage of Shannara)79 reviews Terry Brooks Del Rey, 1991 shannara + Start of something...a bit...new + The future of the Four Lands... + a real page-turner! + Great Book... Looks like this could be another great series from Mr. Brooks             The Beckoning Fair One2 reviews Oliver Onions Wildside Press, 2007 Chilling Onions + Creepy and Colossal! "The Beckoning Fair One" has become regarded as a classic 'ghost' story, and very deservedly so. Too many supernatural/ghost/horror stories end up focussing myopically on the details of the horror, which however well delineated still leans toward the boring. To be truly engaging and satisfying a ...             Immortality (Perennial Classics)66 reviews Milan Kundera Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 Oh I love this book. + Good book + But is it a novel? + A feast of many courses