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 trade), 182 pages, 2002 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: A group read for one of my Yahoo groups. Synopsis: A lonely horticulturist volunteers to aid England’s war efforts of 1941 by moving to the country and leading a small group of girls in a potato-growing venture. While there, Gwen […]

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), 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 […]