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Netherland: A Novel
Joseph O'Neill
Pantheon, 2008
A document of our time
+ So beautifully written
When this book was published in the spring of 2008, it received wonderful reviews, most notably in May on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Book Review Magazine. The usually difficult and persnickety Michiko Kakutani also gave it high marks in another review in the Times' daily edition. ...
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Love the One You're With
Emily Giffin
St. Martin's Press, 2008
4.5 stars
+ My Book Review
+ light fun
I docked this book a half-star because I didn't like how they used a pseudonym for Bono (Drake is obviously supposed to be Bono). I feel like if you're going to use a real-life star as a model, might as well use the real person!
That said, it is a minor quibble in an otherwise highly ...
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North River: A Novel
Pete Hamill
Little, Brown and Company, 2007
Understanding another time
+ "North River" by Pete Hamill
+ True To The Times
+ North River a joy from beginning to end
+ Really 4.5 -- Great Characters & So Relevant!!
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Dear American Airlines: A Novel
Jonathan Miles
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008
Fantastic
+ One part was better than another ...
+ Entertaining Read
+ Great Read
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The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel
Stef Penney
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Beautifully written, compelling story
+ Sorry to see it end.
+ Fields of Heaven
+ Loved it!
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The Other
David Guterson
Knopf, 2008
Melancholy "madness"
+ Engaging at multiple levels, but not for everyone
+ Great Story and Detail
This is a really good book, by the author of the really good "Snow Falling on Cedars" and the not so good "Our Lady of the Forest" (well, at least I didn't enjoy that one). Middle-class Neil Countryman narrates the tale of his friendship with John William Barry, a young man to the manor born who ...
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The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club)
Ken Follett
NAL Trade, 2007
Enticing novel indeed
+ Great story
When I finally came to the conclusion that I was to read the Pillars of the Earth for my summer reading, I was rather skeptical that a near thousand page book, dealing with the construction of a cathedral could keep me inspired enough to read it. I was ineffably mistaken.
Ken Follet introduces ...
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Change of Heart: A Novel
Jodi Picoult
Atria, 2008
excellent book
+ Overall solid Picoult
This is one of the best books I have read. It reminds me of The Green Mile. She tells this story from different viewpoints. She includes ideas from a rabbi, a priest and the gnostic scriptures. Her characters are well developed and believable. I loved this book and did not want it to end.
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The Memory of Water
Karen White
NAL Trade, 2008
One of the best I have read this year...
+ Good Book, Good Summer Read!
+ wonderful book
+ The Memory of Water
+ Gripping novel...
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Desperation Moon
Ken Douglas
Bootleg Press, 2003
Mucho Desperation in this Finely Tuned Thriller
+ Non-Stop Action
+ A New Fan
+ A Book I Could Not Put Down
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People of the Book: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks
Viking Adult, 2008
A wonderful story
+ A brillant and memorable book
+ a most worthwile book to read
+ The People of the Book
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Sasa Stanisic
Grove Press, 2008
awe
+ A child's perspective
+ One of my fav reads of the year
+ What a firecracker!
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The Septembers of Shiraz: A Novel (P.S.)
Dalia Sofer
Harper Perennial, 2008
Sorrow and hope in the hands of a master storyteller
+ Exquisite
Masterpiece is defined as the superlative work of an artist and no word better describes Dalia Sofer's debut novel. "The Septembers of Shiraz" amazes by its sheer quietness and simplicity, and its impact is powerful for such understated prose.
It's 1981 in Tehran. Isaac Amin, a wealthy jeweler ...
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The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
Sweet as honey!
+ The Secret Life of Bees
+ Now I know why people kept buying this book
+ Traveling made easy
+ Gorgeous Prose and Characters
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
Steven Galloway
Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
One of 2008's Best
+ A Must Read!
+ Picked Up at the End
On May 27, 1992, twenty-two people died in a mortar attack in beseiged Sarajevo. They were waiting to buy bread. Vedran Smailovic, a cellist, appeared in the market and played Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor for twenty-two days, commemorating this senseless, isolated, violence.
Using this ...
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