It reads like a series of intertwining short stories--and a novel, all at once. It won the Pulitzer, and with good reason. Apparently, this book is an homage of sorts to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past--but essentially it is about time, the passage of time and what is lost and gained, remembered, cherished and forgotten--time here being the goon squad that visits us all.

I love this album. I was told he tours with Charlotte Gainsbourg (that'll give you an idea of what his music is like, but I like him much, much, much more). Apparently he is amazing live--and there are some lives songs on this CD. Buy it!

I love this CD! The songs are excellent, important and honest. There is no gratuitous violence or sex - although it does discuss both, and it does not shy away from important issues.

I put off buying this book because I associated it with "chick lit" (maybe it is chick lit, but as it should be). I changed my mind when I came across Bank's excellent story "The Wonder Spot" in an anthology. The same elements in that story can be found in this anthology: humor, intelligence, wit, great writing, messed-up relationships, and struggles with one's place in the world. Great!!

Well-written survey of protest art. Thoughtful, insightful, not bogged down by too much detail, and the author's language is appropriate and not difficult.

This is an excellent, funny, intelligent memoir that captures a time, and a family perfectly. What I appreciate most in a memoir is the element of truth -- not so much truth as in the facts, but in the telling. Incredibly enjoyable and well-written.

This is one of my favourite books over the last few years, if not my favourite. Not only have I reread it five times now (something I have not done since childhood), but I have given it to all of my friends. It is funny, moving, intelligent, thoughtful, and respectful. Not many memoirs, if any, are able to capture the language of childhood so well, or so completely without being cute or precocious. (If there's anything I hate, it's cute children's voices in literature.) Some of the "essays" are unconventional (like the one that is a list of records that disappear from her collection). What emerges from this book is a heartbreaking (but sometimes heartbreakingly joyful) tale of love, friendship, childhood, family and the will to prevail. At the core of it is one woman's struggle with the many forces aligning against her to "get up off the couch." Wonderful, wonderful. In one of the essays, I was actually laughing so hard, I had to put the book down. The one about her brother, though, is heartbreaking in its honesty, as are those about her father. Read this, buy it, give it to your friends.