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Anna Janelle: The Cat's Meow
Anna Janelle: The Cat's Meow rated it 11 years ago
A sad, strange, beautiful book that captured my complete attention (despite the increasingly hard-to-ignore distractions that accompany being nine months pregnant). A group of well-to-do industry leaders and their wives gather at the home of a South American Vice President to celebrate the birthd...
Gale Martin
Gale Martin rated it 12 years ago
This one is off to a slow start. Too cerebral? I'll give it a few more chapters before I say uncle. It's a month later and I'm still struggling to stick with this book. Since it's Patchett, I'm expecting a big payoff if I hang in there. So many books, so little time. If I weren't taking the ...
In Love of Books and Friendship
In Love of Books and Friendship rated it 12 years ago
Dr. Marina Singh works for a pharmaceutical company, her lab partner Dr. Anders Eckman who is doing research in the Amazon is pronounced dead. Dr. Singh tries to comfort his widow but Mrs. Eckman is not convinced her husband is dead and urges Dr. Singh to make the trip to the Amazon to find out what...
anndiehl
anndiehl rated it 12 years ago
I'm becoming a big Ann Patchett fan!!
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 12 years ago
This is the story of Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy. The love that Ann had for Lucy shines through the pages and the tragedy and heartbreak shows as well. It's the story of a woman who wanted to have a face, wanted to be pretty but her cancer got in the way almost every time. The number of surgerie...
Mellkoh
Mellkoh rated it 12 years ago
I liked this book. Like others have said, it's not always a believable book, but that's why I like reading so much, it's an escape from reality! There are strong family elements here, studies on the reaction to loss, breaking free from parental expectations and how to react in a crisis. My big com...
Listening to the Silence
Listening to the Silence rated it 12 years ago
Based on the events of a real-life situation in Peruvian embassy, Bel Canto is a fictional account of the events that transpire during a hostage crisis, after a terrorist organization takes hundreds captive while the celebrate the birthday of a Japanese industrialist. This unnamed South American na...
52 Book Minimum
52 Book Minimum rated it 12 years ago
Mr. Hosokawa is being thrown a birthday party by government officials and other muckity-mucks in South America. The true purpose of the party for the government is to persuade Hosokawa into building a factory in their poor nation. Mr. Hosokawa, on the other hand, has absolutely no interest in doin...
Books and the Readers who read them
Books and the Readers who read them rated it 12 years ago
Not good at all. Mostly because I really disliked the main character, Rose. The writing is fine, the story paces fine I guess. I don't "get" it. I only finished it because I wanted to know if what I thought would happen would indeed happen.
anndiehl
anndiehl rated it 12 years ago
This is a story of our humanity even in extreme circumstances. The writing pulls you in and though you long for a happy ending, you really don't want it to end! Pretty much like the characters in the story.
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