THE ODDS, by Stewart O’Nan
BITTERSWEET PARABLE OF midlife crisis follows a couple risking their finances and marriage in one last gamble.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ODDS: A LOVE STORY
Viking
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
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BITTERSWEET PARABLE OF midlife crisis follows a couple risking their finances and marriage in one last gamble.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ODDS: A LOVE STORY
Viking
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
DEFTLY PLOTTED UK mystery: brooding aristocrat Inspector Lynley investigates death among the rich and famous.
Grade: SOLID B
BELIEVING THE LIE
Dutton
2012
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
GRIM, ATMOSPHERIC TALE traces the impact of Nazi occupation on the island of Guernsey, and on one girl’s family.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BOOK OF LIES
Harper Perennial
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, World War II
STARTLINGLY POETIC IMAGES of small-town life redeem this book’s soap-opera plot about a young girl in crisis.
Grade: SOLID B
THE BEGINNERS
Penguin
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
WORLD WAR II THRILLER with an all-star cast of science fiction writers and scientists; fun historical caper!
Grade: SOLID B
THE ASTOUNDING, THE AMAZING, AND THE UNKNOWN
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
CHARMING HISTORICAL MYSTERY with a just pre-Regency English setting and an appealing heroine/sleuth is good fun.
Grade: B PLUS
THE GILDED SHROUD
Penguin
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
WACKY ENGLISH COZY mystery, third in a series, features a D-list crime writer and his agent as sleuths.
Grade: SOLID B
THE HERRING IN THE LIBRARY
Felony & Mayhem
2011
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
POINTED SATIRE OF the business world’s sociopathy, misogyny is like spending 2+ hours with a misogynist sociopath. SOS
LIGHTNING RODS
New Directions
2011
AN ODDLY APPEALING HITMAN in the grip of a midlife crisis is the protagonist of this unusual, surprising novel.
Grade: SOLID B
CALLING MR. KING
Other Press
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
THE LOST BOYS (and girls) of the 1980s punk and straight-edge scenes take center stage in this elegaic novel.
Grade: SOLID B
TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
Ecco
2011
Tags: New York City, Novels, Solid B Reviews