Werlin has won a couple awards, including the Edgar Award Winner, which means nothing to me, but perhaps will mean something to you. I picked this book up because it was recommended to me by librarything.com, based on other reading I'd done. It's a young adult fiction book about three children growing up with a physically and emotionally abusive ( Read more... )

I decided to read some more of what Wolff (not to be confused with the HORRIBLE Virginia..) had written after immensely enjoying his fiction novel Old School. This book is nonfiction, and a slower read than his fiction work. It doesn't have the same depth of profundity either, as the focus is more on the story instead of the message (as opposed to ( Read more... )

This book is a national bestseller, written by Mark Haddon, of which I'd heard a lot about so I picked up a copy at Goodwill. It's written from the perspective of an adolescent boy who deals with an uncommon psychological disorder, making him incredibly intelligent in some aspects of life (say math) and incredibly thick in others (say social ( Read more... )

Fall Reading List
1. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison (F - A4384ba)
2. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (NF - 814.54 E63)
3. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (F - F4594br)
4. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (F - S6236pr)
5. Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno (F - M5477ha)
6. Almost a Woman by ( Read more... )

I read this book because my friend italianina recommended it to me. Coelho is her favorite author, altho I believe she reads most of his stuff in Spanish. The book itself was okay, I'd give it three out of five stars. I don't really like the story, but the writing is amazingly profound at times. Here are some of my favorite quotes ( Read more... )

This is the third book that I've read by Nick Hornby, and it's my second favorite. It's a novel about a single man who pretends to have a son in order to hook up with a hot single mom. It's a really cute story, and good, often funny, writing. I give it four stars out of five. It definitely beats A Long Way Down but it's not quite as good as How to ( Read more... )

I was not at all impressed with this book, at least after the expectations that had been set up for me. It was too short and too shallow. There was only one part I liked, in which the psychologist suggested to the girl that perhaps she cuts herself because she blames herself for all the painful things around her. But even that is cliche, and kind ( Read more... )

This is the most brilliant book I've ever read. You will especially like it if you a) write, b) read the 'classics' or c) are of above-average intelligence ( Read more... )

This is a nonfiction book by Laura Jensen Walker called A Kiss is Still a Kiss: Celebrating the Moments That Make Marriage Last. It started off slow, as she tries to be funny but overdoes it a bit (I don't think I LOL'd even once). But as you get farther into the book, the advice becomes more tangible and meaningful. Though there wasn't any one ( Read more... )

I was so impressed with the first Hornby book I read, How to be Good, that I decided to put the rest of his books on my want-to-read list. Unfortunately, this book didn't quite live up to the reputation I'd built him in my mind, though there were several profound passages that I've excerpted for your reading enjoyment. Oh, and I give it three and a ( Read more... )