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The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold
- Rated 4 stars
“I admire a writer who can successfully tackle a loaded subject as child molestation and murder, and handle it with grace and sensitivity. It gave me a sense of hope for all those lost children, to think that they could be vicariously growing up as they watch from heaven. However, the ending didn't satisfy.”

lindakays wrote this review Friday, September 14 2007. ( reply | permalink )
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

by Miranda July
- Rated 5 stars
“Every character in each of these astonishing stories is as wacky and idiosyncratic as the next, from the girl who daydreams about a love relationship with the Korean man on her shared patio while he has an epileptic seizure, to the young lesbian who works at a peep show, to the man who finds true love never makes you wait. There's something real and endearing in her stories that capture the essence of what it means to be a flawed human, as we all are.”

lindakays wrote this review Friday, September 14 2007. ( reply | permalink )
Three Junes

by Julia Glass
- Rated 1 stars
“I had to force myself to finish this book, hoping it would get better, assuming that it would HAVE to, having won a noteable book award. I didn't get it.”

lindakays wrote this review Friday, September 14 2007. ( reply | permalink )
Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison
- Rated 3 stars
“"Bone" (the bastard child) tells her bizarre, personal story with honesty and a matter-of-fact attitude. Her lively voice is amusing. Right from the unfolding of the unique happenstances of her birth, we know there will be trouble ahead for Bone as she grows up in an unusual, and, somewhat ignorant, family ripe with bickering and alcohol. Bone knows terrible secrets and she is going to tell you everything.”

lindakays wrote this review Monday, November 12 2007. ( reply | permalink )
A Thousand Acres: A Novel

by Jane Smiley
- Rated 5 stars
“The story's narrator, Ginny Cook, is a dutiful daughter who experiences the destruction of her inheritance- a successful, 1000 acre farm. Her world has a rich history, as well as a rhythm and life of its own, that, while beautiful, has a maddening sameness to it, which feeds her unsettling desire for change. As her family and safe life begin to fly apart, she struggles to keep her world running smoothly. The details allow the reader to experience farming in a palpable, thus credible, way through the details. It's backbreaking work in a breathlessy beautiful landscape.”

lindakays wrote this review Sunday, October 21 2007. ( reply | permalink )