In a Summer Season (Virago Modern Classics)3 reviews Elisabeth Russell Taylor Virago UK, 2006 Fantastic + Compelling and illuminating + The young and the restless I am reading all of Elizabeth Taylor's books, one by one. They are all beautifully written, fiercely intelligent, and both hilarious and heartbreaking at once. Had it not been for an article in the Atlantic Monthly, I would have lived my whole life never having discovered this author, who has ...             Memory Maps2 reviews Lisa St Aubin de Teran Virago UK, 2003 Spirited and Strong + wonderful memoir It should be compulsory to read this book. The author is fascinating and her life extraordinary. It makes me want to do greater things with my life, to live my life more interestingly, and lets me escape the doldrums of the everyday. I thorougly recommend this book. My first encounter with Ms St ...             Watson's Apology: A Novel4 reviews Beryl Bainbridge Da Capo Press, 2001 They drove each other NUTS! + Victoriana + A Very Different Watson + They drove each other NUTS!             Killer Diller8 reviews Clyde Edgerton Ballantine Books, 1996 Sequel Outshines the Original + If you went to Campbell University... + Pretty near as good as Mattie's home cookin' Eight years after the events of Walking Across Egypt, Edgerton resumes the story of now twenty-four-year-old Wesley Benfield, ex-con resident of a Baptist halfway house called BOTA (Back On Track Again). This sequel does what few sequels can: it outshines the original. I frequently laughed out ...             An Evening of Long Goodbyes: A Novel10 reviews Paul Murray Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 You can't help but LOVE Charles + An author to watch + An Evening (or two) of Laughs! This book was so incredibly funny. The main character, Charles, is sure to win your heart over with his innocence and naivety to the real world. He is charming and amazingly unaware of his surroundings because he's so self-absorbed. This high-society brat ends up learning about life the hard way ...             Come Away, Death (Mrs. Bradley Golden Age Mystery) Gladys Mitchell Rue Morgue Press, 2007             Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow7 reviews Jerome K. Jerome 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007 Old books are the best books + Idle thoughts of a genius + Spontaneous Grins and Irrepressible Guffaws + Fun read + Humorous,Witty and Thought-provoking             The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)23 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991 Well worth the time it takes to read - Excellent! + thinly veiled autobiography + A good read, but I wish Elsa had some backbone + Bleak House on the Prairie + A bold and raw work by one of America's greatest writers             Letters of a Woman Homesteader13 reviews Elinore Pruitt Stewart Mariner Books, 1998 So good, I thought it was a contemporary novel! + Insight into homesteading in the turn of the century Wyoming + Joyous and Inspiring and a Great Gift + I can't put it down! + Pioneer grit             Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.)32 reviews James R. Gaines Harper Perennial, 2006 read this asap + Two 18th Century Titans + Evening in the Palace of Reason -- James R. Gaines + A unique parallel + Evidently A Sadly Neglected Book             The Conquest7 reviews Yxta Maya Murray Harper Paperbacks, 2003 Two women joined by the centuries. + How romantic! Okay, here's what you've got: Alternating chapters from the POV of Sara, a rare book restorer at LA's Getty Museum in modern times and Helen (perhaps a more ancient-sounding name would have worked better), an Aztec slave given to the pope by Cortez. Sara has been handed a book about Helen's ...             Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education5 reviews Michael Dirda W. W. Norton, 2007 ENGAGING ENTHUSIAMS + What a Value + ...Or, "What to Read Next". + A book- lover's enthusiasm + Dirda v. Hitchens             An Evening of Long Goodbyes: A Novel10 reviews Paul Murray Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 You can't help but LOVE Charles + An author to watch + An Evening (or two) of Laughs! This book was so incredibly funny. The main character, Charles, is sure to win your heart over with his innocence and naivety to the real world. He is charming and amazingly unaware of his surroundings because he's so self-absorbed. This high-society brat ends up learning about life the hard way ...             Letters of a Woman Homesteader13 reviews Elinore Pruitt Stewart Mariner Books, 1998 So good, I thought it was a contemporary novel! + Insight into homesteading in the turn of the century Wyoming + Joyous and Inspiring and a Great Gift + I can't put it down! + Pioneer grit             The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)23 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991 Well worth the time it takes to read - Excellent! + thinly veiled autobiography + A good read, but I wish Elsa had some backbone + Bleak House on the Prairie + A bold and raw work by one of America's greatest writers             Watson's Apology: A Novel4 reviews Beryl Bainbridge Da Capo Press, 2001 They drove each other NUTS! + Victoriana + A Very Different Watson + They drove each other NUTS!             Memory Maps2 reviews Lisa St Aubin de Teran Virago UK, 2003 Spirited and Strong + wonderful memoir It should be compulsory to read this book. The author is fascinating and her life extraordinary. It makes me want to do greater things with my life, to live my life more interestingly, and lets me escape the doldrums of the everyday. I thorougly recommend this book. My first encounter with Ms St ...             Come Away, Death (Mrs. Bradley Golden Age Mystery) Gladys Mitchell Rue Morgue Press, 2007             Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.)32 reviews James R. Gaines Harper Perennial, 2006 read this asap + Two 18th Century Titans + Evening in the Palace of Reason -- James R. Gaines + A unique parallel + Evidently A Sadly Neglected Book             Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education5 reviews Michael Dirda W. W. Norton, 2007 ENGAGING ENTHUSIAMS + What a Value + ...Or, "What to Read Next". + A book- lover's enthusiasm + Dirda v. Hitchens