Lydia Netzer

A man walks into a bar, gets drunk, sells his longsuffering wife and infant daughter to a stranger for five smackers. POW! What a hook. What...

When Joshilyn gave me this book, a long time ago, she said that it was really two books mashed into one, and she felt sure I'd like one ...

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Wow. I look at my little children, who refuse to eat half the things I put in front of them just because the whim of the moment dictates th...

Well, this was a silly little book. A book that treats writing like Juliet Binoche treats acting. That is to say, with a lot of insubstantia...

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...

Apparently everyone else on earth read this book in high school, and saw the movie too. Alright, well, I went to a Lutheran high school, and...

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’...

I didn't know about this book but found it on a friend's bookshelf and was surprised I'd never heard of it. It is a dystopian sc...

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...

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...

It took me a long time to read this. It wasn't a book where one thing leads to the next in a single plot that you follow from page to pa...

This book has been stopping up the works around here. I read it, I digested it, I had thoughts about it, but for some reason I haven't f...