Sara Gruen's Ape House Bond Street Books, 2010 Reasons I read Water for Elephants: 1. I got tired of saying "No, I haven't, yet", when countless people -- with all kinds of reading prefereces between them -- asked me if I'd read it. 2. I love elephants (and books about
Michael Winter's This All Happened: A Fictional Memoir House of Anansi, 2000 Gabriel English was also the protagonist of Michael Winter's short story collection One Last Good Look. I realized this after I had finished this novel and felt a little badly. As though I'd arrived significantly late for an
Alison Pick's The Sweet Edge Raincoast, 2005 You know how sometimes you pick up a book and it's just not the right timing? That was true for me and Alison Pick's first novel, The Sweet Edge, which I first picked up, shortly after publication, in 2005. Even though I'd been
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall's Ghosted Random House 2010 Reasons (Not necessarily good ones) that I didn’t expect to like Ghosted: 1. These words on the flyleaf: gangster, hotdogs, suicide, heroin-smoking, tragedies (bit redundant, eh); 2. Ray Robertson’s blurb beginning with “Lean and mean and...” (though ending “with a surprising amount of heart”);
Giles Blunt's Blackfly Season (2005) Seal Books, 2006 It would have been far more appropriate to have read this mystery earlier in the season in, say, Blackfly Season. And it would have been far more appropriate to have read it in closer proximity to the first two books in this
