BrerChicken rated Doomsday Book: 4 stars
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …
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BrerChicken rated To Say Nothing of the Dog: 4 stars
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
In the second of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy, Ned's holiday in Victorian England becomes a mad struggle to put …
BrerChicken rated The boy who couldn't sleep and never had to: 5 stars
D. C. Pierson: The boy who couldn't sleep and never had to (2010, Vintage Books)
The boy who couldn't sleep and never had to by D. C. Pierson
Fifteen-year-old Darren, a social misfit who spends his time at school trying not to be noticed while drawing characters for …
BrerChicken rated Damned: 4 stars
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate …
BrerChicken rated Florida Roadkill: 3 stars
Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey, Laetitia Devaux
Local trivia buff Serge loves inflicting pain. Drug-addled Coleman, his partner in crime, loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves …
BrerChicken rated Hammerhead Ranch Motel: 3 stars
Hammerhead Ranch Motel by Tim Dorsey
There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck …
BrerChicken rated A Visit from the Goon Squad: 5 stars
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …
BrerChicken rated Red Garden: 4 stars
BrerChicken rated Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates: 4 stars
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
The bestselling author of "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" and "Skinny Legs and All" makes his triumphant return. Robbins explores, …
BrerChicken rated A prayer for Owen Meany: 5 stars
A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. …
BrerChicken rated Until I find you: 5 stars
BrerChicken rated A Son of the Circus: 4 stars
BrerChicken rated Villa Incognito: 5 stars
Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a …
BrerChicken rated Half asleep in frog pajamas: 5 stars
Tom Robbins: Half asleep in frog pajamas (2003, Bantam Books)
Half asleep in frog pajamas by Tom Robbins
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you--an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker--are …
BrerChicken rated A widow for one year: 4 stars
John Irving: A widow for one year (2003, Modern Library)
A widow for one year by John Irving
“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to …