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Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
This satire was published in 1996, just prior to major litigation against tobacco companies in the United States. Reading it at that time, I (an avowed non-smoker) felt great glee over the ...
(August 2009)
The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan Medlicott
Three elderly ladies meet as residents of a small elder care home where they are managed by a rigid care taker who treats them as if they are mindless children. When one ...
(July 2009)
Out to Pasture, But Not Over the Hill by Effie Leland Wilder
Written as the diary entries of an octogenarian widow living in a South Carolina retirement home this semi-autobiographical novel’s protagonist, Hattie McNair tells of the everyday life of the residents in Fair ...
(July 2009)
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
Evanovich’s Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has more misadventures than Wiley E Coyote but she solves her cases in spite of herself, her sidekick Lula and her grandmother. Grandma likes the action ...
(June 2007)
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys is a modern story tapping into the ancient myths handed down through the history of mankind. On the modern level, we meet sympathetic characters using deeply funny dialogue, and a ...
(August 2006)
Where's My Cow by Terry Pratchett
The book cover describes this as “A Discworld picture book for people of all sizes” and gives it the OOK! award from the city librarian of Ankh-Morpork. Here is a clever and ...
(February 2006)
Thud! : a Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Pratchett has done it again. Here is another masterpiece of social commentary thinly disguised as a funny, compelling and heartwarming adventure. Thud! is the sound of a blow to the head—or a ...
(November 2005)
The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
The simple life is a sweet dream. Stella Benson is a klutzy modern Jane Eyre who leaves London under mysterious circumstances in search of a less complicated life in the Sussex countryside ...
(September 2004)
The Cat That Changed My Life: 50 Cats Talk Candidly About How They Became Who They Are by Bruce Eric Kaplan
In preparation for this groundbreaking study of feline psychology, Bruce Eric Kaplan crisscrossed the country -- well, actually, a good chunk of New Jersey -- and interviewed 1000's of cats. Mr. Kaplan ...
(February 2003)
Carpe Jugulum: a Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Carpe diem means seize the day. So, by Nanny Ogg’s translation, carpe jugulum means "go for the throat." In the strange little mountain top country of Lancre, the new king with "modern ...
(December 2002)
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