I'm not sure that I possess the words to adequately describe this book. How on earth the author was able to weave such a compelling story, demanding that the reader suspend disbelief that we are actually hearing this tale from a dog's POV, it all defies explanation. And yet, I'm looking at my o...
Pretty good--not gripping by any means, but good enough that I finished it quickly and enjoyed it. This is the "special adaptation" for younger readers (I got this from my 11 year old's bookshelf), which I didn't actually realize until well into the book. I'm not feeling like rape charges and s...
Evan is a difficult character to like entirely. Although I liked this book, it was not always easy to like the main character Evan. While it was easy to have empathy with Evan over his epilepsy and how it has changed his life's course, it was sometimes difficult to understand why Evan did some of...
In this haunting debut, Garth Stein brilliantly invokes his Native American heritage and its folklore to create an electrifying supernatural thriller. When a grieving mother returns to the remote Alaskan town where her young son drowned, she discovers that the truth about her son's death is shrou...
There was a reason my father had jumped the gun on getting the power of attorney signed and had called the notary too soon. He wanted to fail. He could have executed the plan properly—if he had laid the groundwork, as Serena had said. But he hadn’t. Because if he had, the problem would have been ...
There was no letup: Denny got his first victory in Laguna in early June, then third place at Road Atlanta, and he finished eighth in Denver. That week with the boys in Sonoma had worked out the kinks with the crew, and it was all on Denny’s shoulders. And his shoulders were broad. That summer, wh...