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Libby Lost and Found
Libby Lost and Found: A Novel
by Stephanie Booth
Libby Lost and Found: Imagination Magnified (8/25/2024)
Many authors have, at times, suffered Writer's Block, but not in the way Libby Weeks, the creator of an outrageously successful series of children's books about the Falling children, has. Libby, only in her early forties, has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Now …more
Day
Day: A Novel
by Michael Cunningham
Day falls a bit short of The Hours (10/20/2023)
It was with anticipation that I, an ardent fan of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, received a copy of his new book, Day -- a Novel. Perhaps The Hours, based on Mrs. Dalloway, a novel I knew well and an intriguing character, set too high a bar for this reader. Cunningham's …more
Mrs. March
Mrs. March: A Novel
by Virginia Feito
Another Mrs. March (4/26/2021)
Usually, "psychological thriller" is not my genre of choice. Often plots are too contrived for this reader to suspend disbelief, or the author seems more manipulator than novelist. Virginia Feito is guilty of neither in Mrs. March. From the opening chapter with vivid …more
America for Beginners
America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
America for Beginners -- A Primer for Hopefuls (3/14/2018)
What a curious and complex cast of characters Leah Frangui created for her debut novel. A wealthy but naive widow from Kolkata, with a Bangladeshi immigrant posing as an Indian guide and a feisty down-and-out American actress as companion lead the troupe in their (and the …more
The Shock of The Fall
The Shock of The Fall: (originally published in hardcover in USA as Where the Moon Isn't)
by Nathan Filer
Missing the Moon (10/25/2013)
At first I thought the drawings and multiple type faces, fonts, and spacing might be mere gimmicks. Not so. This powerful novel by Nathan Filer uses all of these devices to enhance the telling of nineteen-year-old Matthew Homes' harrowing story.

As Matt battles schizophrenia …more
A Hundred Flowers
A Hundred Flowers: A Novel
by Gail Tsukiyama
A Hundred Flowers; No Literary Bouquet (7/23/2012)
Anticipation of a compelling story that would provide insight into the terrible period of suppression, anti-intellectualism, and desecration of the arts under the rule of China's Mao Tse-Tung and the People's Party led me to choose Gail Tsukiyama's "A Hundred Flowers" to …more
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