Have read: Broken Glass Park

Read and really liked Broken Glass Park. Read my review here.

2009 Extras

Below are links to reviews that were published in 2009 but I hadn't posted to this blog.

The Poacher's Son

by Paul Doiron

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6710018.html

:-)  :-)

The Long Division

by Derek Nikitis

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6678656.html

:-)

Johannes Cabal: The Necromancer

by Jonathan L. Howard

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6660941.html

:-)

The Brain Trust Program

by Larry McCleary

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-the-brain-trust-program/

:-p

Little Bird of Heaven

by Joyce Carol Oates

http://www.bookpage.com/books-10012270-Little+Bird+of+Heaven

:-)

Erased

by Jim Krusoe

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-erased-by-jim-krusoe/

:-)

The Magicians

by Lev Grossman

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-the-magicians-by-lev/

:-)

The Angel's Game

by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-the-angels-game-by2/

:-)

Not available online:

"On the Shelf Summer Reads," Woodstock Magazine, Summer 2009
Books reviewed in this article:  American Cream by Catherine Tudish, Still as Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor,  The Animal Lovers' Bedtime Reader by Anne Greenall, and Weekending in New England by Betsy Wittemann.

"On the Shelf," Woodstock Magazine, Fall 2009
Books reviewed for this article: Young Woman and the Sea by Glenn Stout,  All That I Have by Castle Freeman Jr., The Lamoille Stories by Bill Schubart, Have the Time of Your Life in Retirement by Dave Brazier, and Hiking the Green Mountains by Lisa Densmore.

Short take: Lying With the Dead

Wow! If you like dysfunctional family stories (a la Jonathan Frazen's The Corrections), Lying with the Dead by Michael Mewshaw will knock your socks off.  Told alternately from the points of view of three adult children with emotional scars worse than the physical ones left by their mother's beatings, this story will get to you. Far from being sad, however, it's often funny, and it draws you in, making you fond of the three misfits and wondering if the truth can ever be discerned through their controlling mother's lies.

An edited version of this review was published in the December 2009 Indie Next List <http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781590513187/Michael-Mewshaw/Lying-Dead>.