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The Friday Night Knitting Club 208 reviews
Kate Jacobs
Berkley Trade, 2008
Friday Night Knitting Club
I really enjoyed this book. It was fairly predictable throughout, though there were a few unexpected twists. The message seemed to be that we can't run away from our family, and family love overcomes all other.
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Peony in Love: A Novel 103 reviews
Lisa See
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
Favorite Summer Fiction Read
+ Loved this book.
Such a wonderful love story. I wanted to be there and in the moment. It felt so real at times. I wanted to believe in the story so much....that all of it was really possible.
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Nineteen Minutes: A Novel 452 reviews
Jodi Picoult
Atria, 2007
WOW
+ Very good book!
+ wow
I may be young but let me tell you that this book was probably the best book I have ever read in my life. It is written SO well and I love the little pieces of information that show what leads up to Peter doing what he did. I cried and cried SO much when I read because this book is so emotional and ...
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White Teeth: A Novel353 reviews
Zadie Smith
Vintage, 2001
A difficult read, but at times engaging
I almost dropped this book half way through, but forced myself to go on and found that the second half was much better. It is at times engaging and witty, but at other times difficult to follow and even depressing in the description of some of the shabby lives of these people. I did not like the ...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books361 reviews
Azar Nafisi
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
A tribute to the human spirit
+ Memorable
+ cinsandiego
+ Pleasantly surprised
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The Beach House150 reviews
Jane Green
Viking Adult, 2008
The Beach House
+ Fun, beachy read
Good book - entertaining but not too deep. The perfect book to read at the beach!
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The Host: A Novel683 reviews
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Beautiful Host
+ Suspense, love, and betrayal...
+ Interspecies Stockholm Syndrome
No vampires appear in Meyer's latest novel, instead an alien species invades our planet and eventually the bodies of the human population. In the end most of these host lose their personality but not all. Such is the case of the young human female Melanie. She fights to keep her own identity in ...
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Atonement 762 reviews
Ian Mcewan
Anchor, 2007
Beautifully written and engrossing.
+ Atonement is a work of art!
+ Not a quick read.
+ Reconciliation...Really?
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The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))276 reviews
Umberto Eco
Everyman's Library, 2006
Gripping mystery telling a story of religious life in another century
+ one of my top 5 books of all time
+ Excellent
It's a fabulous WHODUNIT!!
The characters come alive with the author's fascinating description of physical characteristics, his telling from whence each person came to this abbey, and through personality traits. The reader feels like he is meeting each of them in real life.
The book starts out ...
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1st to Die: A Novel545 reviews
James Patterson
Grand Central Publishing, 2002
Ist to Die
+ Start of new women-led murder series
+ Wonderful start to the series
This is the first in the Women's Murder Club series and it is the first James Patterson book I've read. He is a popular and prolific writer, and this thriller doesn't disappoint. It may not be great literature, but it is easy reading with very short chapters and it keeps the reader's interest to ...
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Suite Francaise374 reviews
Irene Nemirovsky
Vintage, 2007
One of the best, by far.
+ Unfinished masterpiece
+ Wanted more and more!! .such a tragedy she is gone...
+ Subtle, Powerful, Unfinished - An Astonishing Survival
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The Pillars of the Earth1300 reviews
Ken Follett
NAL Trade, 2002
Great choice by Oprah
+ A must read
+ Simply Brilliant
+ A page-turner about cathedral construction? YES!
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Rhett Butler's People211 reviews
Donald McCaig
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008
An Amazing Read!
+ Not Gone With the Wind
I recently purchased and read this book. Based on the reviews that I had read, I thought I wasn't going to enjoy the book. I am so glad that I was wrong. Are there flaws with the book? Absolutely, the main one being the way Melly is protrayed. However, with all of the flaws, it is still an amzing ...
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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons: A Novel181 reviews
Lorna Landvik
Fawcett, 2005
I usually avoid this kind of book -- Glad I didn't
+ Angry Housewives Review
+ Angry housewives eating bon bons
+ pleased with delivery time
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The History of Love: A Novel278 reviews
Nicole Krauss
W. W. Norton, 2006
My Highest Recommendation
+ Life, death, and the meaning in between
This tale is woven together so masterfully it's nearly impossible to put down. The characters and their distinct voices are rich, unique, and memorable in a way that has worked into my own personal history of the love of reading.
We begin by getting to know "the oldest man in the world," Leopold ...
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)456 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage Books, 2007
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
+ Metaphorical Romp
Garcia Marquez can write. No doubt about it. The man is a marvel. I'd be puddling along, reading of Fermina Daza, and her adolescent passion (and his for her) of Florentino Ariza, or of her married life with Juvenal Urbino when I'd be swept away by a phrase or image, or the smell of bitter almonds. ...
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Pope Joan: A Novel283 reviews
Donna Cross
Ballantine Books, 1996
Excellent Historical Fiction
+ WOW!
When this novel was released, there was some minor brouhaha about how it's "untrue", "there was never a female pope", "the author is taking liberties", etc. The kind of controversy that sprang up when "The Da Vinci Code" was released, though nowhere near that level. All of which drew me to the ...
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The Friday Night Knitting Club208 reviews
Kate Jacobs
Berkley Trade, 2008
Friday Night Knitting Club
I really enjoyed this book. It was fairly predictable throughout, though there were a few unexpected twists. The message seemed to be that we can't run away from our family, and family love overcomes all other.
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The Host: A Novel683 reviews
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Beautiful Host
+ Suspense, love, and betrayal...
+ Interspecies Stockholm Syndrome
No vampires appear in Meyer's latest novel, instead an alien species invades our planet and eventually the bodies of the human population. In the end most of these host lose their personality but not all. Such is the case of the young human female Melanie. She fights to keep her own identity in ...
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White Teeth: A Novel353 reviews
Zadie Smith
Vintage, 2001
A difficult read, but at times engaging
I almost dropped this book half way through, but forced myself to go on and found that the second half was much better. It is at times engaging and witty, but at other times difficult to follow and even depressing in the description of some of the shabby lives of these people. I did not like the ...
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