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  This Perfect Day

  by Ira Levin

  • Rated 5 stars

  Dave H wrote:
  "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin is quite simply amazing. Original, imaginative, erudite and totally entrancing this story is truly a masterpiece. Be careful what you wish for comes to mind when I reflect on the well written storyline which is both provocative engaging, and immersive with melifluous pacing, richly developed characters, descriptive backdrops, societal conundrums, tepid romantic entanglements, and set against unpredictable betrayals and surprising twists and turns that will...
  
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  Mansfield Park

  by Jane Austen

  • Rated 4 stars

  Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) wrote:
  Mansfield Park is probably my fourth most favorite Austen novel, following Emma, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility. This is not the gay frivolity and biting wit of Pride and Prejudice, but it is rich and complex in characters, plotting, and loads of moral dilemmas. While Fanny Price may not be the heroine of the stature of an Anne Elliot, Elizabeth Bennet, Elinor Dashwood, or Emma Woodhouse, she is a fiercely loyal and compassionate person with...
  
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  Madame Xanadu: Book 2

  Exodus Noir

  by Matt Wagner, Michael Wm. Kaluta

  • Rated 3 stars

  Rochelle H wrote:
  I found this volume really disappointing as I felt it fell way short from the first volume Disenchanted. The artwork was completely different and not in a good way and I felt Madame Xanadu kind of lost some of what attracted me to her in the previous volume. I felt that after Disenchanted her character would be developed more and her powers expanded. This did not happen. I just felt this volume went in a completely wrong direction
  
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  Sweetened With a Kiss

  by Lexie Callahan

  • Rated 5 stars

  MsChris1161 wrote:
  This was a delightful read! I'm seriously amazed by how much I enjoyed reading it. It was just fun! From start to finish I was hanging on every word just wondering what Jen and Stefan would do or say next. When they would stop being so blind. When they would finally do the deed for goodness sake! (And oh my, once that started there was no stopping them and it was STEEEAMY!!). And if not them, then enjoying getting to know their wonderful friends and family that make up the secondary...
  
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  Oleander Girl: A Novel

  by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  • Rated 3 stars

  Dr. J. G. wrote:
  A bridge over two very different parts of the world, migrants bridge a huge distance and gaps in cultures, languages, diaspora. Writing about their own kind comes easy in one way, and difficult in every other - does one write for those one left home, those one is living now with, attempt to make it universal and that how, precisely? For any artist, any writer tells one of thoughts and emotions and visions relating to world and universe as seem from one's own stand, one's own viewpoint, and...
  
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