It's been three weeks since I've posted about any books. Big mistake. Now, there are too many books to report on. So, no reports. Just a list. Make of it what you will.
Bed, by David Whitehouse. A humorous, dark novel about a morbidly obese young man, so fat a crane is needed to lift him from his bed. ★★★☆☆
Easily Amused, by Karen McQuestion. Poorly written fluff; light as a feather. Skip. ★☆☆☆☆
The Girl with the Sturgeon Tatoo, by Lars Arffssen. A clever parody of the Stig Larssen trilogy. Funny for a while, but the joke fades quickly. ★★☆☆☆
Coming Up for Air, by Patti Callahan Henry. A woman solves a mystery about her recently deceased mother, and in the process finds her own heart. ★★★☆☆
Q: A Novel, by Evan Mandery. A man encounters himself, time-traveling from the future. The future self comes with warnings. A swell idea, poorly executed. ★☆☆☆☆
Iron House, by John Hart. A bloody thriller by a masterful writer. A man sets out to find his brother, from whom he was a separated as a boy when both lived in an orphanage. Wow. ★★★★★
Solar, by Ian McEwan. A novel about a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose career and private life are a mess. It's not worth going into more detail than that because the book, too, is a total mess -- a surprisingly poor piece of work by the estimable British author. ★☆☆☆☆
Close Your Eyes, by Amanda Eyre Ward. A woman confronts the truth about the murder of her mother years earlier, supposedly at the hands of her father. ★★★☆☆
The Violets of March, by Sarah Jio. A divorcee visiting her aunt on Bainbridge Island, Washington, finds a diary dating to 1943 that reveals potentially life-changing secrets. ★★★★☆
Safe Haven, by Nicholas Sparks. A mysterious young woman appears in a small North Carolina town and gradually gets drawn into a relationship with a widowed store owner and his two young children. It turns out that her life is in danger from a figure in her past. ★★★★☆
House of Holes, by Nicholson Baker. Funny, fanciful porn. A wild literary ride into a land of erotic fantasies. Totally strange. See the New York TImes review. ★★☆☆☆
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