Moral Disorder and Other Stories18 reviews Margaret Atwood Anchor, 2008 A BRILLIANT, DEEPLY MOVING, TOUR DE FORCE CHARACTER STUDY -- AND SEIMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TO BOOT! + Brilliant Writing at its Best! + Good, but not her best "Moral Disorder" by Margaret Atwood is a collection of eleven short stories. Each stands easily and delightfully alone; in fact, five of them have previously appeared in magazines. But taken as a whole, this collection gathers synergy and eventually morphs into a most uncommon and extraordinary ...             Peace12 reviews Richard Bausch Knopf, 2008 Man's (In)Humanity to Man + Nearly like Hemingway and a good summer read. + A fine piece of writing + A Perfect Novel About War + Well worth your reading time             Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Novel10 reviews Elizabeth Noble William Morrow, 2008 Touching book! + things i want my daughters to know + A book about love: between mothers and daughters, sisters, and others This is a great book. I could not put it down. As a mother, I was moved by Barbara's need to leave something for her girls. The characters are very complicated and the author gives great insight to each of them.             The Cure for Modern Life: A Novel15 reviews Lisa Tucker Atria, 2008 TUCKER IS THE CURE FOR MODERN LITERATURE + What if.... With each book Lisa Tucker gets better and better. She's that rare author who writes beautiful, original stories with deep and meaningful characters. This book has her trademarks - people who crave family and carve it out of thin air if that's what they have to do - people who break your heart ...             The Girl with No Shadow (published in the UK as The Lollipop Shoes)24 reviews Joanne Harris William Morrow, 2008 Relevant Magic + tri-perspective treat + More Witchy than Chocolat + Dark Chocolate for second helpings             Chez Moi6 reviews Agnes Desarthe Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 Make yourself at home in Chez Moi + magical Agnes Desarthe's Chez Moi is a classic novel in the style of Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies and Chocolat that revels in the sensual and emotional power of truly great food. Its narrator, Myriam, is a talented cook with a forged ...             The Sugar Queen52 reviews Sarah Addison Allen Bantam, 2008 Sweet Read + Sugar Queen + The Sugar Queen is SWEET. + Fairy-tale sweet             Skylight Confessions47 reviews Alice Hoffman Back Bay Books, 2008 hoffman never dissapoints! + Fascinating! + Praise for Skylight Confessions and Alice Hoffman :) + Completely Enjoyable!             An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country Books)22 reviews Patrick Taylor Forge Books, 2008 ---Author Patrick Taylor knows how to weave a story--- + Escape to Ballybucklebo + An Irish Country Doctor + Irish Country Doctor             River of Heaven: A Novel13 reviews Lee Martin Shaye Areheart Books, 2008 Another great read from a gifted storyteller + "It was a long time ago and we were different people" + My Midwest + A sweet and tragic story, well-told             An Irish Country Village (Irish Country Books)8 reviews Patrick Taylor Forge Books, 2008 An Irish Country Village (Irish Country Books) by Patrick Taylor + Great Escapist Reading + Balleybucklebo Forever! + An Irish Country Village + An Irish Country Village             The God of War: A Novel9 reviews Marisa Silver Simon & Schuster, 2008 'We are trapped by history' + Good story + The God Of War + Marisa Silver and THE GOD OF WAR...and a boy named ARES RAMIREZ             Willing19 reviews Scott Spencer Ecco, 2008 Yes Yes Yes + Stunning + Willing Reader + **SPOILER REVIEW**             The Inheritance of Loss154 reviews Kiran Desai Grove Press, 2006 Great book This book deserves a fresh endorsement, which I wholeheartedly give. The one disgruntled reader below ("Ashok") is symptomatic of newly-disgruntled Indian rightwingers--precisely the target of books like this one and Roy's "The God of Small Things." In fact, it's no coincidence that many ...             The Forgery of Venus: A Novel18 reviews Michael Gruber William Morrow, 2008 I didn't want to put it down! + Classic Gruber + Fascinating + A Novel with Sprezzatura             The Story of a Marriage: A Novel33 reviews Andrew Sean Greer Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 A multi-layered shimmer that bedazzles + Intimate and surprising Andrew Sean Greer is a riot of talent. He carves his words with such precision that one can have no choice but to be surrender to his writing. His works, including Story of a Marriage, always deal with the subtle underplay of the human mind, and ultimately reveal the fragility of our existence. I ...             The Philosopher's Apprentice: A Novel15 reviews James Morrow William Morrow, 2008 A fun, amusing read, with many dashes of philosophy + Four Stars A very good read, with a setting in the science fiction present. Lots of fun playing with philosophy and how it can or cannot infuse your life. A woman clones younger versions of herself, then hires moral counsellors to fill in the gaps in their upbringing (or lack thereof). Explores how this ...             Desperation Moon26 reviews Ken Douglas Bootleg Press, 2003 Great find! + Non-Stop Action + A New Fan + A Book I Could Not Put Down             The Outlander18 reviews Gil Adamson Ecco, 2008 Read Out Loud + Superb reading -- finest kind After stopping several times to read aloud particularly powerful passages in Gil Adamson's "The Outlander," I suddenly recognized that every page had passages that I wanted to read aloud to others. Adamson's language is stunningly beautiful, and her details of ordinary and extraordinary life in ...             The Condition: A Novel79 reviews Jennifer Haigh Harper, 2008 A deeply moving book + The Condition (of Life) + Great Book This was an extraordinary novel. What was most impressive was how deeply character driven the book was. Haigh shifts beautifully in time. Because the characters are so well written, changes in time feel both natural and, in an odd way, chronological because the plot hinges on people rather than ...