Winter’s Bone is a novel that manages to be simultaneously gritty, sparse, and poetic. It’s beautiful and certainly one of my favorite books that I have read in 2012. The focus of the novel is sixteen year old Ree Dolly. Ree’s father, Jessup, is the best meth cooker is the Ozarks. Only he’s beenContinue reading “Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell”
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
According to a few other and myself, with What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver has written one of the best short story collection of the twentieth century. Given the number of writers he has influenced and how frequently the title is parodied, I gather I am not the only one who thinks so (evenContinue reading “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver”
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
From Goodreads: The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight students who gather in Lillian’s Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. Students include Claire, a young mother struggling with the demands of her family; Antonia, anContinue reading “The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister”
Mile 81 by Stephen King
From Goodreads: At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It’s a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who’s supposedContinue reading “Mile 81 by Stephen King”
The Missing by Sarah Langan
From Goodreads: A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat . . . The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Lois Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. ThereContinue reading “The Missing by Sarah Langan”
Wilderness by Lance Weller
From Goodreads: Thirty years after the Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman has found his way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel, now an oldContinue reading “Wilderness by Lance Weller”
America Pacifica by Anna North
From Goodreads: Eighteen-year-old Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica–one of the last places on earth that is still habitable, after North America has succumbed to a second ice age. Education, food, and basic means of survival are the province of a chosen few, while the majority of the island residents must struggle toContinue reading “America Pacifica by Anna North”
The Elementals by Francesca Lia Block
The Elementals by Francesca Lia Block (in her adult fiction debut) weaves a compulsively readable, gothic-tinged mystery with a coming of age story. From Goodreads: From a star YA author Francesca Lia Block—an adult novel about a student, haunted by the disappearance of a friend, who must face the truth. The Elementals is on one level an intriguing coming-of-age novelContinue reading “The Elementals by Francesca Lia Block”
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
Learning to Swim is Sara J. Henry’s excellent debut novel featuring a slightly quirky, but beguiling protagonist. You’ll be quickly drawn in to the mystery surrounding the little boy’s disappearance and sudden resurrection. From Goodreads: “If I’d blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn’t, and I saw something fall from the rear deckContinue reading “Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry”
Desperation by Stephen King
You know a book is going to be good when you are sufficiently scared on page four. There is something about the highways in the middle of America, where you travel for miles without seeing any sign of life (on a side note, I’ve always found Wyoming to be the worst). Suddenly, you see aContinue reading “Desperation by Stephen King”
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