by Cindy | Dec 3, 2009 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in February 2005) Rating: As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me, by Nanci Kincaid. Back Bay Books (2005), 384 pages. Many literary fiction readers undoubtedly missed out on this book due to the unwieldy chick-lit like title and...
by Cindy | Aug 13, 2009 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in May 2003) Rating: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. Harvest Books (2003), 336 pages. The zebra’s broken leg was missing. The hyena had bitten it off and dragged it to the stern, behind the zebra. A flap of skin hung limply...