by radguru | Oct 18, 2007 | Fiction
Tip and Teddy Doyle are the adopted sons of the former mayor of Boston and his late wife. They know nothing of their African American parentage. One evening, while attending a lecture with their father, Tip’s life is saved by an unknown woman who darts in front...
by ta | Oct 16, 2007 | Fiction
“Though “Tree of Smoke” is hobbled by a plot that starts and stops and lurches wildly about, it’s a powerful story about the American experience in Vietnam, with unsettling echoes of the current American experience in Iraq. It is a story about bad intelligence...
by ta | Oct 14, 2007 | Fiction
This month we’ve picked three books from Marie’s list of favorites in which a minor character becomes the focus of the story. The Red Tent~Anita Diamant “The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by...
by radguru | Oct 10, 2007 | Fiction
If you loved Empire Falls, you’re in for a treat. Richard Russo’s latest is another peek into a small town and its collection of quirky inhabitants. The story is told as a biography of the main character, “Lucy” (Lou C.) Lynch, the only son of...
by kimb8 | Sep 26, 2007 | Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance
Silver Master tell the story of matchmaker Celinda Ingram and security specialist Davis Oakes. They’re both psychics (as is just about everyone on the planet Harmony), and they are trying to figure out the mystery behind what looks like a red plastic knob which...
by ta | Sep 24, 2007 | Fiction
“Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the fuku –...
