http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com We Love to Read! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:05:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Book Quote: “But think. Aren't I just as cut off by what happened as he is? Nobody who knew about it would want me around. All I can do is remind people of what nobody can stand to be reminded of.” Book Review: Review by Bonnie Brody (NOV 19, 2009) It is an honor ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/too-much-happiness-by-alice-munro/ Book Quote: “Every farm, like every everything, has flaws, is subject to accidents, sometimes doesn’t work as it should. Life overflows with imperfections, but some imperfections matter more than others. How imperfect must animal farming and slaughter be before they are too imperfect.” Book Review: Review by Poornima Apte (NOV 18, 2009) Full disclosure: ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/eating-animals-by-jonathan-safran-foer/ Book Quote: “I felt chastened and embarrassed. I realized that I had nearly disastrously misinterpreted the Pairahas’ perception of my role among them. I had thought that they saw me, the missionary, as a protector and authority figure.” Book Review: Review by Lynn Harnett (NOV 17, 2009) The Pirahã are the "Show me!" tribe ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/dont-sleep-there-are-snakes-by-daniel-everett/ Book Quote: "But for one beautiful summer, it’s linden trees and vodka made from fermented plums and stars and mountains and raspberries . . . Drink in the gorgeous scenery, the Carpathians, Bucharest, the dark forests. Suspend all cynicism and believe in the possibility of this love story." Book Review: Review by Jana ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/train-to-trieste-by-domnica-radulescu/ Book Quote: "What binds us together across our differences in religion or politics or economic theory is that when each one of us is cut, our blood flows red. Mine does and yours does too. Those who would try to appropriate God or family or country for their own narrow ends...forget ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/true-compass-by-edward-m-kennedy/ Book Quote: "I should have told you that a long time ago." Her mother rests her back against the pillows. "I should have told you how beautiful you are," she says softly. When Anna was fifteen, the brother of one of her friends from school held her hand and said, ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/anna-in-between-by-elizabeth-nunez/ Book Quote: “Though he’d since tried to notice as little as possible that could lead to arrests, paperwork or acclaim, it was no use. He saw more than ever. He intercepted buds on Halverstick, then caught a smuggler on Judson Lake and yet another in downtown Sumas. ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/border-songs-by-jim-lynch/ Book Quote: "Drug dramas. And manic-depression. Hard to know which roller coaster you're riding." Book Review: Review by Bonnie Brody (NOV 11, 2009) Ginnah Howard's Night Navigation is a powerful and unflinching novel about drug addiction and mental illness. It is beautifully written in a terse and spare style that is both ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/night-navigation-by-ginnah-howard/ Book Quote: "She nodded and laughed again and squeezed his hand. He'd told her everything and she hadn't heard a word. He took a breath and tried to start from the beginning but he didn't know where the beginning was. He couldn't think of it. Violet was the beginning but ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/lowboy2-by-john-wray/ Book Quote: “In retrospect, what mattered most to [Sullenberger’s] ultimate success was not what he did, but what he chose not to do, his shedding of distractions, the concentration that he brought to the crisis.” Book Review: Review by Mary Whipple (NOV 10, 2009) William Langewiesche’s analysis of all the factors which ... http://bookreview.mostlyfiction.com/2009/fly-by-wire-by-william-langewiesche/