I've been neglecting this thing ... hence, a double post.1) A Desirable Residence, by Madeleine Wickham.It must be nice in the summer, she thought, forgetting that this still was, to all intents and purposes, the summer. Her mind always worked at least half a term ahead.Wickham is better known as Sophie Kinsella, the author of the "Shopaholic" series,...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Her Fearful Symmetry
Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger.The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.This is the second novel by the author of The Time Traveler's Wife, which was recently made into a movie (sidenote: both the novel...
Friday, November 6, 2009
Best Friends Forever
Best Friends Forever, by Jennifer Weiner.If time was a dimension, and not a straight line, if you could look down through it like you were looking through water and it could ripple and shift, I was already opening the door. This had all already happened, the way it always did; the way it always would.Weiner is the author of 7 novels, only one of which...
Monday, November 2, 2009
Love or Something Like It
Love or Something Like It, by Deidre Shaw.It occurred to me then that for the first time that we were getting older, that our pain and misfortune might not always be erasable, that our lives going forward might hold some disappointment, the adult kind, the kind that mattered.I liked this novel a lot, probably because the narrator and main character,...
