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Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
Washington Square Press, 2008
Nineteen Minutes
+ a very engaging read on a very tough subject
+ very good yet very stereotypical at the same time
I love this book, it is so very interesting that it is hard to put down!
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Adelaide: Roman (Le gout du bonheur) (French Edition)
Marie Laberge
Boreal, 2001
Fortement recommandé
Ce livre est le début d'une série de trois à posséder à tout pris. On en devient accro! C'est un retour sur la vie familiale de 1930 en montant. Personnages attachants. Très bien écrit.
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The Abstinence Teacher
Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Press, 2007
Good start
Perrotta, author of ELECTION, is wonderful of capturing the idiosyncrasies and absurdity of modern suburban life. He has a talent for developing believable, realistic characters, people who could be your next door neighbors, and then putting them in such awkward situations that, although they do ...
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Next (Spanish Edition)
Michael Crichton
Random House Mondadori, 2008
Ultimate review
+ Excellent reading
+ One of Crichton's best!
Abstract: Read this book if you want to learn a lot about the ethical/moral/practical issues related to genetic engineering in a short time. Do not read it if you expect a smooth, "idle brain" leisure-time novel.
Full review: There is a thin layer of society (scientists and few lawyers) that are ...
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The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel
Jed Rubenfeld
Henry Holt and Co., 2006
Masters of Psychoanalysis in Manhattan!
+ Unexpected Pleasure
+ Succeeds in some ways, but the ending is a let-down
+ La interpretación del Asesinato.-
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Until I Find You: A Novel
John Irving
Ballantine Books, 2006
The First 40 pages!
+ maybe not the best, but still a great Irving novel
The book begins slowly, opening with the main character, Jack, at 4 years old. Jack is geniously able to comprehend converstaions like an 8 year old- however it is still hard to believe he understands, nor REMEMBERS, travelling from country to country in search of his absconded father, William- an ...
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Today Show Book Club #22)
Andrew Sean Greer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004
This book is so interesting! My fave book.
+ "I would be old until I was young, no sooner."
+ A great book, highly recommend it.
+ Fantastic! You'll love this one if ...
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Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006
Astonishing Details
+ the life of a circus
+ Fun Fiction About the Big Top of Yesteryear
The descriptive language in this unbelievably well researched book is amazing. The story transports the reader onto a circus train. It might be easy to dismiss this as a story too odd to get interested in, but it's not. Just pick it up and find yourself lost.
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones
HarperPerennial, 2004
Gorgeous
+ Riveting! You'll never forget it.
+ Gripping
"The Known World" is one of the most beautifully written novels I've read. I savored it as as I do Nabokov or Garcia Marquez. If you appreciate a flawlessly structured narrative written with sublime economy of words; if you delight in reading a good story with deep philosophical undercurrents; if ...
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Prep: A Novel
Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
when I think back on all the crap I learned in high school...
+ good novel of a teen struggling to grow up
+ Great
I didn't want to like this book. It looked like cheesy chick-lit, and something about reading about the adolescent trials and tribulations of a working-class Hoosier girl named Lee...well, I got through being an adolescent working-class Hoosier girl named Lee once and I was not really interested ...
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Atlantis (Spanish Edition)
David Gibbins
Planeta, 2007
Dirk Pitt-ish Science
Yes it is the character Dirk Pitt merged with Tom Clancy's tech speak. To some degree the scientific explainations were necessary for the believability of Atlantis being truly found - but they easily could have been scaled back and still worked. That was not a detractor to me. More of bringing the ...
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Atlantis (Spanish Edition)
David Gibbins
Planeta, 2007
Dirk Pitt-ish Science
Yes it is the character Dirk Pitt merged with Tom Clancy's tech speak. To some degree the scientific explainations were necessary for the believability of Atlantis being truly found - but they easily could have been scaled back and still worked. That was not a detractor to me. More of bringing the ...
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The Abstinence Teacher
Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Press, 2007
Good start
Perrotta, author of ELECTION, is wonderful of capturing the idiosyncrasies and absurdity of modern suburban life. He has a talent for developing believable, realistic characters, people who could be your next door neighbors, and then putting them in such awkward situations that, although they do ...
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Until I Find You: A Novel
John Irving
Ballantine Books, 2006
The First 40 pages!
+ maybe not the best, but still a great Irving novel
The book begins slowly, opening with the main character, Jack, at 4 years old. Jack is geniously able to comprehend converstaions like an 8 year old- however it is still hard to believe he understands, nor REMEMBERS, travelling from country to country in search of his absconded father, William- an ...
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones
HarperPerennial, 2004
Gorgeous
+ Riveting! You'll never forget it.
+ Gripping
"The Known World" is one of the most beautifully written novels I've read. I savored it as as I do Nabokov or Garcia Marquez. If you appreciate a flawlessly structured narrative written with sublime economy of words; if you delight in reading a good story with deep philosophical undercurrents; if ...
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