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| "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King (1929-1968) | ||
| January 20, 2007 | ||
In 2006, Lisa Unger introduced us to Ridley Jones in her sensational debut thriller, Beautiful Lies. The page-turning plot has Ridley performing an act of heroism, which lands her picture in the paper and ends up turning her perfect life upside down. And it isn't because Ridley is hiding her own identity -- it's those closest to her. Sliver of Truth picks up where the first novel leaves off... (read review) |
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| January 19, 2007 | ||
"Sorenson leaned forward and Miles saw muscles bunch in the man's big shoulders. His expression was flat and cold. "There's a theory about traumatic memories. Our most terrible memories take the deepest root. Because they're not like regular memories. After a trauma, patients constantly dredge up the results of our worst, life-altering experiences. We examine them, we dissect them. What could I have done differently, what choice could I have made to avoid the tragedy. Leave for school two minutes earlier and my car doesn't crash into a truck and kill my child. Keep a more careful eye open and my friend doesn't get gunned down in a battle." (read review and excerpt) |
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| January 17, 2007 | ||
This intense psychological novel, recently translated into English and published in the US for the first time, tells of a daughter's efforts to understand her mother following her mother's death. Delia, a comic strip artist and the oldest of three daughters, receives three strange phone calls from her mother... (read review) Also see Mary's review of GOLDEN COUNTRY by Jennifer Gilmore |
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| January 16, 2007 | ||
"A white Pomeranian named Fluffy flew out of a fifth-floor window in Panna, which was a brand-new building with the painter's scaffolding still around it. Fluffy screamed in her little lap-dog voice all the way down, like a little white kettle losing steam, bounced off the bonnet of a Cielo, and skidded to a halt near the rank of schoolgirls waiting for the St Mary's Convent bus. There was remarkably little blood, but the sight of Fluffy's brains did send the conventeers into hysterics, and meanwhile, above, the man who had swung Fluffy around his head by one leg, who had slung Fluffy into the void, one Mr Mahesh Pandey of Mirage Textiles, that man was leaning on his windowsill and laughing. Mrs Kamala Pandey, who in talking to Fluffy always spoke of herself as 'Mummy', now staggered and ran to her kitchen and plucked from the magnetic holder a knife nine inches long and two wide." (read review or excerpt) Also see Poornima's review of THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS by Kiran Desai |
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| January 14, 2007 | ||
"I suppose there were some back then had money, but we weren't among them. The Depression was on. And if we had been one of those with money, there really wasn't that much to buy, outside of hogs, chickens, vegetables, and the staples, and since we raised the first three, with us it was the staples, and sometimes we bartered for them...." (read review and excerpt) Also see Jana's review of IN THE DARK OF THE MOON by Suzanne Hudson |
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| "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| January 13, 2007 | ||
"If you ignore what I have to say, it really won't surprise me. I've come to find that most people ignore the dead. If you do choose to hear me, listen closely, because what I have to tell you is a story of unholy proportions. Hopefully, if I can make you hear what I am supposed to tell you, I can finally break the ties that bind me to the secret letter society of Gamma Chi."... (read review) Also see Pat's review of LORD VISHNU'S LOVE HANDLES by Will Clarke |
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| January 12, 2007 | ||
"I can barely do anything this morning knowing there’s a living creature in the office next to mine. Usually it’s just the corporate securities partner, and he hasn’t moved a muscle since the Carter administration. But today he brought his dog into the office. Ridiculous. As if there aren’t enough animals here already. We had fish once. Piranhas. We overfed them. We threw The Fat Guy’s lunch in the tank one day because he showed up to a meeting fifteen minutes late. The fish devoured it -- turkey sandwich, brownie, forty-eight-ounce Coke -- and then exploded. It made the point. No one shows up late to my meetings anymore. But the dog arrived this morning and immediately everyone was in the hallway instead of where they belong, staring into their computer screens. Associates were getting up, out of their chairs, to go chase the dog, pet the dog, talk to the dog. Someone gave the dog a piece of his muffin from the attorney lounge. The muffins aren’t for dogs. We don’t even let the paralegals have the muffins..." (read review) If you like this one, try GLAD NEWS OF THE NATURAL WORLD by T. R. Pearson |
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| January 10, 2007 | ||
The world has changed since 9/11, and it shows in John Updike’s latest novel, Terrorist--a complete change of pace from Updike’s usual fare. In this novel, Updike’s protagonist is an 18-year-old boy, named Ahmad... (read review) If you like this one, try Absolute Friends by John Le Carré |
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SLIVER OF TRUTH 
from 5 reviews
FEAR 
from 4 reviews
TROUBLING LOVE 
from 3 reviews
SACRED GAMES 
THE BOTTOMS 
THE WORTHY 
ANONYMOUS LAWYER 
TERRORIST 
from 99 reviews
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