"September 2010.Nine years after winning the National Book Award, Franzen's The Corrections consistently appears on "Best of the Decade" lists and continues to enjoy a popularity that borders..."
"September 2009. Uwen Akpan, age 39, is a Jesuit priest, well aquainted with Africa, his country of birth. There he sets five stories that drive home in wince-making detail the horrors that poverty..."
"September 2008. Stephen King: 'I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, and spent twelve happy evenings immersed in the world David Wroblewski has created."
"January 2008. According to Tolle, who assumes the role of narrator as well, humans are on the verge of creating a new world by a personal transformation that shifts our attention away from our egos."
"November 2007. Tom Builder dreams of building a cathedral, but must wend a tricky way through the violent politics of twelth-century England to find a patron to pay for it."
"October 2007. Cholera, a word that can refer not only to the dreaded disease, but to the hot madnes of passion, or love. In this case the broken love affair still has its inner fire after a lifetime."
"June 2007. As the Age of the Genome begins to dawn, we will, perhaps, expect our fictional protagonists to know as much of the chemical details of their ancestry as Victorians knew about their estates"
"March 2007. Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a "long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that leaves cities burned."
"January 2007. It's impossible to imagine hearing anyone other than Poitier, with his distinctive, resonant voice and perfect enunciation, tell the story. In his second memoir Poitier talks..."
"January 2006. A scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. Memories of the nightmare world..."
"Not connected with Oprah's book club. My first novel; a serious look at society and morality in the battered world following WWII, when the plans of a pair of disillusioned soldiers are shaken."
