Lydia Netzer

I am not interested in mafia stories. Or crime stories. I have not read anything written by Mario Puzo and just between you and me, even th...

When I acquired The Sacred and Profane Love Machine I also acquired The Black Prince , and when I was disappointed by the former I was still...

For the first 250 pages of this book, I was wondering, so what? The author seemed content to play with the idea of time travelling, let us k...

This book is a memoir about life in Iran. Its formal structure expands from the discussions of a secret book club that meets in the author...

Wow, this book was so uplifting and hilarious, I think I'll go and kill myself now! Hey! If you ever wondered whether children get the s...

Everyone always says, O Iris Murdoch. Brutal, brilliant, irascible Iris Murdoch. She is so blazingly legendary. I watched the movie, "I...

First let me say that I read this book very quickly and kind of hungrily. It has a very specific voice and a kind of ethos that was very ad...

What’s amazing about this book is that Mazza can unfold such a tiny piece of the world into such an interesting shape. Her characters aren’...

One of the best things an author can do for you is to leave you with an image that you'll never forget. Short stories do this for me mor...

Here we have a book that I don't fully understand. However, I feel like I probably would understand if I really thought about it hard en...

When I was gathering my big stack of contemporary fiction titles to read this summer, this was one of the ones I held up to my husband and ...

I'm three chapters into this and have a few things to say as I trot along: 1. The book is so much easier to read than the others I'v...

OKAY. On to a collection of short stories. Karen Brennan wrote several books before this one, notably Wild Desire back in 1990 which was po...

I'm about 50 pages into it. It's making me ask myself things like... why are books written? Why are books read? For years I have tri...