2009 Book Reviews

• A Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh - 5 stars
• Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs - 5 stars
• A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel - 5 stars
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - 5 stars
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - 5 stars
• Timeless Toys by Tim Walsh - 5 stars
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri - 5 stars
  

• 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down by Andres Martinez - 4.5 stars
• The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta - 4.5 stars
• Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg - 4.5 stars
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - 4.5 stars
• Creating A Charmed Life by Victoria Moran - 4.5 stars
• Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips - 4.5 stars
• I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle - 4.5 stars
• The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran - 4.5 stars
• Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Stories by Jean Shepard - 4.5 stars
• You Suck by Christopher Moore - 4.5 stars

• Big, Bad and A Little Bit Scary: Poems that Bite illustrated by Wade Zahares - 4 stars
• Bitter Is the New Black by Jen Lancaster - 4 stars
• Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody - 4 stars
• Clockers by Richard Price - 4 stars
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris - 4 stars
• Nelson DeMille books featuring John Corey - 4 stars
• Do-Over! by Robin Hemley - 4 stars
• The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst - 4 stars
• The Economist Book of Obituaries by Keith Colquhoun and Anne Wroe - 4 stars
• Family Man by Calvin Trillin - 4 stars
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Steven J. Dubner - 4 stars
• The Game On Diet by Az Ferguson and Krista Vernoff - 4 stars
• The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson - 4 stars
• The Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents): 2nd Ed. by Gina Misiroglu - 4 stars
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston - 4 stars
• Lies My Mother Never Told Me by Kaylie Jones - 4 stars
• Lit by Mary Karr - 4 stars
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann - 4 stars
• The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker - 4 stars
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - 4 stars
• A Simple Plan by Scott Smith - 4 stars
• Twilightby Stephenie Meyer - 4 stars
• The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill - 4 stars
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - 4 stars

• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy - 3.5 stars
• The Embers by Hyatt Bass - 3.5 stars
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger - 3.5 stars
• The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb - 3.5 stars
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb - 3.5 stars
• Marley & Me by John Grogan - 3.5 stars
• The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert LeLeux - 3.5 stars
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf - 3.5 stars
• Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers by Peter L. Benson, Ph.D. - 3.5 stars

• Best Intentions by Emily Listfield - 3 stars
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok - 3 stars
• Cutting Loose by Nadine Dajani - 3 stars
• The Disappearance by Efrem Sigel - 3 stars
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen - 3 stars
• Double Fault by Lionel Shriver - 3 stars
• Fired! Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized and Dismissed by Annabelle Gurwitch - 3 stars
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris - 3 stars
• I'm Down by Mishna Wolff - 3 stars
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - 3 stars
• A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard - 3 stars
• Looking for Alaska by John Green - 3 stars
• Lottery by Patricia Wood - 3 stars
• The Moment Between by Nicole Baart - 3 stars
• The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner - 3 stars
• Obedience by Will Lavender - 3 stars
• Silverstein & Me by Marv Gold - 3 stars
• The Sister by Poppy Adams - 3 stars
• Testimony by Anita Shreve - 3 stars
• That Went Well: Adventures in Caring for My Sister by Terrell Harris Dougan - 3 stars
• Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron - 3 stars
  

• The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing -2.5 stars
• Salty Like Blood by Harry Kraus, M.D. -2.5 stars

• Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer - 2 stars
  
• Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange - 2 stars