Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 324 pages, 2003 Rating: 3/10 Reason for Reading: Longlisted for the 2003 Booker. Synopsis: In a single day, an ex-cop turned private investigator of marital affairs explores how the events of two years ago lead from affairs to murder.

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Trade, 639 pages, 2000 Rating: 10/10 Reason for Reading: I avoided it for a while, despite the Pulitzer Prize, because it was about comic books, but the continuing praise from unexpected sources eventually drew me in. Synopsis: Escaping from the Holocaust in Europe, Joe Kavalier lands on the doorstep of his American […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass market), 392 pages, 2003 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: Because it’s Atwood, of course. Synopsis: It’s some time in the indeterminate future, and Jimmy, or Snowman, as he now goes by, is living in a strange world of genetically modified pigoons and rakunks, as well as the innocent […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass-market), 326 pages, 2000 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: Recommended at BookCrazy. Synopsis: A number of teenagers in Algonquin Bay have gone missing, and Detective John Cardinal’s worst suspicions are confirmed with the discovery of the first body. Cardinal’s pursuit of the killer is impeded by problems at home, […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Trade, 226 pages, 1998 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: This one got some buzz before the movie adaptation was released. Synopsis: The Hours takes a brief but deep look into the lives of three women: Virginia Woolf as she begins to write Mrs. Dalloway; Clarissa, who is dealing with her friend having […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 511 pages, 2002 Rating: 10/10 Reason for Reading: A buzz book. Synopsis: Sue Trinder, orphaned and left to Mrs. Sucksby and a “family” of cheats and liars in London, 1862, is about to receive a ticket out of poverty. All she must do is pose as a personal […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 483 pages, 2002 Genre: Fiction, Historical Rating: 8/10 Reason for Reading: A group read on one of my Yahoo groups. Synopsis: The Navigator is a fictionalized account of real characters, Dr Cook and Lt Peary, and their race in the early 1900s to the be the first person […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 318 pages, 2001 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: It was popping up on people’s best-of lists. Synopsis: A birthday party thrown in honour of Japanese businessman, Mr. Hosokawa, is raided by terrorists looking to find and overthrow a South American president. Upon discovering that the president stayed home […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 544 pages, 2002 Rating: 10/10 Reason for Reading A buzz-book of 2002/2003. Synopsis: Middlesex follows a mutated gene through three generations of an odd and twisted family, until the gene emerges in Cal(lie), a hermaphrodite. With the gene comes a family’s legacy of incest, affairs, gambling, bootlegging, Detroit […]