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Review Date: 7/25/2011
Helpful Score: 2
I'm really mortified to admit that, while I fully expected to love this book, I just couldn't get into it, and don't feel inclined to try it again later. It needs a new home that will appreciate it.
Review Date: 12/31/2005
Very nice for young children.
Review Date: 4/23/2007
Helpful Score: 2
Another wonderful novel by Elizabeth Strout. Gently details the unraveling of a grieving widower and his eventual healing. Very well-written.
Review Date: 9/1/2012
Helpful Score: 1
Interesting story of a very unusual childhood. Her discoveries are quite tame by modern standards and I have to admit I was hoping that it would be a bit more salacious.
Review Date: 5/4/2008
Helpful Score: 1
I wasn't sure that I was going to like this novel when I started. I didn't feel an instant connection to any of the characters, however, I'm glad that I stayed with it as I became truly engaged. This is quite a dark book but one that also leaves the door open for hope.
Review Date: 11/27/2005
From the front inset: "Alice is a precocious eleven-year-old growing up in rural East Texas with one wish on her mind: Get rid of Simon Jester. Simon is the man who saved her mother from drowning. Simon is her mother's hero, her savior--her new husband. He's an enigmatic man whose own family, he says, mysteriously drowned. But soon it becomes that Simon's family did not drown."
This is a really great book. I greatly recommend it.
This is a really great book. I greatly recommend it.
Review Date: 5/28/2008
Amusing tale of a divorced sex education teacher and a married Christian fundamentalist; opposites attract...
Review Date: 4/7/2008
Helpful Score: 3
This was an engrossing and beautifully-written novel, even better than her first novel "A Blessed Event". In the aftermath of an accident which kills the narrator's husband, she becomes unexpectedly connected with her husband's ex-wife and child. Interesting twists and turns; altogether satisfying.
Review Date: 2/15/2007
Well-written smut.
Review Date: 3/21/2012
I loved "The Death of Vishnu", and this was an absoluely wonderful novel as well. Do read if you're a lover of Indian authors.
Review Date: 1/4/2007
Helpful Score: 1
I love Sarah Bird. This is her first novel and it's a lot of fun.
Review Date: 5/24/2007
Shattering autobiography of a Holocaust survivor.
Review Date: 12/24/2005
Helpful Score: 2
I hate to say this, but I found the author to be a little too impressed with himself to make me enjoy this memoir, well-written though it is.
Review Date: 10/24/2005
Helpful Score: 3
Way too predictable and soap-operaish for me. If you like Nicholas Sparks you'll like this book. It's not my thing!
Review Date: 3/20/2006
Wonderful book--worthy of its accolades.
Review Date: 3/5/2009
Helpful Score: 1
Like her other books, this starts off with a "kick-your-teeth-in" incident.The narrator then proceeds to careen out of control until the unsatisfying ending. This wasn't really a bad book--I did, after all, finish it--but it didn't live up to "The Lovely Bones". She can do better.
Review Date: 11/23/2005
Helpful Score: 2
A terrific book that honestly explores the complexities of families and relationships.
Review Date: 4/24/2011
Helpful Score: 1
I worship the ground that Michael Chabon walks upon!! What a wonderful, fulfilling, juicy novel this is!
Review Date: 2/21/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Started out really well but I must admit that I got antsy with it midway through. Some nice erotic dialogue.
Review Date: 11/26/2006
Helpful Score: 6
I'll preface this by saying that this is a challenging novel, but if you allow yourself to get pulled in, you will be blown away by its depth. I sympathized with the protagonist as much as I ever have for a fictional character. My only criticism is the ending, which I don't think did this book justice.
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