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Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
After reading A Prayer For The Dying and now Snow Angels, I count Stewart O'Nan among my favorite authors. He puts his characters in stressful situations and then writes about how the events of their lives are resolved.Snow Angels is really two stori...
Watch Out For Those Nutters
Shelfari.com has a feature that allows members to start discussions about any book listed in the Shelfari system. It is also possible to add replies to posted comments. I've seldom used this feature; I'm usually too busy doing other things. But today...
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
This was not the book I expected to read. I chose it because the topic of it was reported to be before and after apartheid in South Africa. That's not a subject about which I know very much, so I thought I would learn more through a fictional family ...
The Lazarus Child by Robert Mawson
I found this buried near the bottom of my TBR pile, and I'm so glad I did. It was a very interesting story posing some thought provoking questions (in my opinion): when a person suffers serious trauma resulting in a coma or puts the person into a veg...
Present Value by Sabin Willett
Present Value is a novel about a lot of things. It's about corporations, accountants, lawyers, Blackberries, CEO's, Wall Street, bankruptcy, ethics or lack of them, politicians, marriage, family, parenthood, economics -- all the entities that make up...
