by Donna | Sep 24, 2009 | Fiction, Five Star
(This review first appeared in April 2008) Rating: The Book of Lost Things, by John Connelly. Washington Square Press (2007), 480 pages. This book is actually alive. It is a book in which books talk (and shout, and throw themselves about), and the stories...
by Cindy | Aug 25, 2009 | Fiction, Five Star
(This review first appeared in February of 2007) Rating: The People’s Act of Love, by James Meek. Canongate (2005), 391 pages. This is a very strange story with a particularly tangled and complicated plot. It takes place in a small village in Siberia...