War with the Mutant Spider Ants
January 24, 2010
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War with the Mutant Spider Ants: Choose Your Own Adventure #152 by Edward Packard.
I loved these when I was a kid. Beautiful fiction it ain’t. Grade: C-.
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
January 24, 2010
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
Grade: A-.
The Halfway House
January 23, 2010
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The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales
A tremendous novella from a suicided writer. Grade: A.
The Little Sleep
January 23, 2010
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The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay
A hardboiled narcoleptic detective story. Grade: B.
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
January 23, 2010
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleton
Forty possibilities of what the afterlife might contain. Grade: B+.
Until I Find You
December 29, 2009
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Until I Find You by John Irving
This might be John Irving’s best novel since Garp. A man’s search to find the father he never knew leads him through mostly tattoo parlors and churches in a novel of surprising juxtapositions and real heart. Grade: B+
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
December 29, 2009
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Percival Everett has written an excellent novel. I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a clever book that follows the adventures of a lad named Not Sidney Poitier who happens to resemble the actor Sidney Poitier. The storyline of the novel parallels the storylines of several Poitier films. Another tremendous book from Graywolf Press.
I hated to give this one back to the library. Grade: A
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