by Cindy | Oct 17, 2009 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in August 2003) Rating: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon. Doubleday (2002), 240 pages. This book is narrated by an autistic boy who discovers his neighbor’s dog has been murdered. As he...
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 Donna | Sep 16, 2009 | Memoir
Rating: A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, by Augusten Burroughs. St. Martin’s Press (2008), 256 pages. I was wrong about Augusten. He has proven beyond a doubt that he did have another award-winning book in him after all. I had declared him...