Mini reviews of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, The 500 by Matthew Quirk and The Taker by Alma Katsu.
Read more →Five super mini book reviews of I Am The Messenger, The Call, Lamb, The Lifeboat and The Sugar Queen
Read more →A review of I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits.
Read more →A review of A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.
Read more →Super Mini Reviews of five books: Earth: The Book, A Northern Light, Revolutionary Road, The Namesake and The Slap.
Read more →A review of Christopher Moore's latest book, Sacre Bleu: A Comedy D'Art.
Read more →A book review of Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis.
Read more →My review of The Rose Trilogy by Jennifer Donnelly, which offers densely plotting historical fiction that packs in the action, drama and romance.
Read more →Book reviews of "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, "Fool" by Christopher Moore and "The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 by Sue Townsend
Read more →A review of "The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson, a supernatural historical fiction tale about past lives and how they might follow us into the present.
Read more →A review of Abraham Verghese's novel Cutting for Stone.
Read more →A book review of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. This is a rare and wondrous book.
Read more →A book review of Michael Chabon's brilliant The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Don't let it scare you like it did me. It is fantastic and fascinating read.
Read more →A review of J.M. Coetzee's novel, Disgrace.
Read more →Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer Harper Perennial, 2002 ISBN: 0-06-052970-9 276 pages Genre: Fiction My rating: 3.5 stars I don’t really know how to start telling you about this book! It is far from a straightforward narrative so it is probably best to start by describing the three primary story arcs: The narration...
Read more →A review (of sorts) of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. It is difficult to discuss the book without giving too much away but I try my best.
Read more →A review of Lisa See's wonderful book, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
Read more →A review of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow written in epistolary format.
Read more →A book review of Christopher Moore's wonderful book Lamb written as a letter to the author.
Read more →Last week, I came across a neat meme over at Pudgy Penguin Perusals called Show Me 5 Saturday. The meme is hosted by That’s A Novel Idea (and is where you can hook up your post if you decide to do the meme). The meme is pretty simple, and I thought it would be...
Read more →A book review of Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer. I wasn't a fan.
Read more →Title: Water For Elephants Author: Sara GruenISBN: 978-1-56512-560-5Publishing Info: Algonquin Books, 2006Number of Pages: 331Book Category: Fiction Story Overview Jacob Jankowski is 90— or possibly 93. He’s not really sure. When you’re five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I’m twenty-three, you...
Read more →Title: The Red Tent Author: Anita DiamantISBN: 0-312-19551-6Publishing Info: Picador, 1997Number of Pages: 321Book Category: Fiction Story Overview My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault, or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had...
Read more →Think you don't like Westerns? I did too ... until I read Larry McMurtry's wonderful Lonesome Dove.
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