3.5 stars.Of the recent books I've read involving suburban dysfunction, I like this one better than We Don't Live Here Anymore (3 stars), but not better than Updike's Rabbit books (4 stars), or Model Home (5 stars).The writing was good, the book flowed, the characters were believable most of the tim...
The stories in The Safety of Objects involve either messed up people, people in the process of becoming messed up, or people doing messed up things. Actually, pretty much all of the stories involve all three. I read this book as Music For Torching showed up as a Goodreads recommendation, and upon ...
I was kind of hoping to read a book that would "change my life". I felt strong hope on this book before I started reading it. But it did not live up to my expectations. Although, in fairness, the story was good. I just couldn't see how the story could change my life.
Disclaimer: I won a free ARC copy of this book through a GoodReads First Reads giveaway in order to give an honest review. First things first, I think this book need a Trigger Warning due to a rape scene, and sexual abuse. It's not gone into too much detail or done graphically, but it's there and it...
Wow, I started then couldn't stop until it's finished. Music for torching indeed… I was glued to it reading each thing explode like watching a chain reaction. The only thing that bothered me a bit is the ending. It felt like a ruse used as an excuse not to tie loose ends properly. I wonder why so ma...
Aficionados of Homes's seductively creepy novels and short stories will enjoy her memoir, which is in many ways no less weird than her fiction. The first half describes how Homes, at that point an adult woman, learns that her birth mother wants to be in touch. Homes's part of the back story, and her...
When I read the synopsis again, I cannot help but think that it doesn't do this incredible book justice. I am so glad that this was my last book of 2009 because it was the `grand finale!' The honest manner through which Homes examines mid-life, not only by way of Richard Novak, but also in the other...
The birth parents of A.M. Homes find her after she publishes her first novel. They are walking disasters. Her mother is needy, calling her constantly with demands and cries for help. Her father is aloof, demanding proof she is his real daughter, keeping her a secret from his wife and children.
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