Review:5+++++ ENDLESS STARS!!!

It's really been a while since I read a book that affects me so much to a point where I could no longer really form coherent words...my thoughts are clouded...my vision is blurred..and I could not even hear a single word my husband said because I was so invested with my reading that after a while I let him hold me and kissed me in my head because hell I was a mess reading the book.

In all honesty It really felt so different reading this compared to the first... Read more

Review:A magnificent and brilliantly written novel by one of our greatest living writers. Ms Didion uses words like no other writer and strikes every emotional chord in a unique and compelling way. She draws us into her characters' worlds and perspectives. The book is so cinenamatic, I don't know why it hasn't been adapted for the screen yet - it would be an amazing film Read more

Review:If you're expecting Blue Nights to be anywhere near the level of Magical Thinking - you'll be sorely disappointed with this book. I assumed, since the topic continued upon the same subject (of loss) that she had something substantial more to say. I reached the end of the book wondering what it was. Didion should have stopped while she was ahead. There were a few gems about parental regrets and difficulties of aging, but certainly not enough to fill a book. Though no one could say Didion has... Read more

Review:Didion just nails it: a fast, exhilirating yet non-trashy read about the trashy world that is Los Angeles (models, actors, badly aging people, everyone here is from somewhere else). I read this book three years ago. But its images of people driving around on the ten lane freeways here continues to haunt me. Still amazingly current and relevant today - means it's a true classic. Not everyone can write both prose and fiction equally well. Didion can! Read more

Review:I find myself reading and retreading this book, just like her later works. I love her delivery of information and expression of feeling, which is always slightly removed and analytical while paradoxically being heartfelt. Read more

Review:Something about The Doll People has my 8 year old enthralled. She has re-read it more than a dozen times. She carries it around as her comfort object since she's "too big for a stuffie, mama!" My opinion of why she loves it comes down to it is a safe adventure for her. The dolls take on all the risks and it's obviously not real since dolls aren't alive. In this world of war, collapsed financial markets, missing children and near 24/7 bombardment of bad news I find comfort in knowing she has her ... Read more

Review:Was really excited about book. Was disappointed. Places in story that were peaking fell flat with the story telling. Either author needs to be more uninhibited or lacks ability to express her passion. I would be willing to give her writing another change only because I love her as an actress. Read more

Review:I really have enjoyed reading Lisa Genova's books, so I was anxious to read this one. I work with children who have autism so I could really relate to her story which she developed so beautifully intertwining two different women's lives, both of whom are going through a difficult time in their lives and how each woman finally found resolution to her problem , including how Anthony helped. Read more

Review:Lisa Genova's new book "Left Neglected," about a multitasking superwoman and guilt-ridden mother, who was transformed in an unguarded instant into a `Left Neglect patient,' is, in my opinion, even better than "Still Alice." I know a lot about hemineglect; I did my PhD on it way back in the early 1980s when only a handful of researchers were studying it and publishing articles about it, and since then have published and written about it often, including cases in my books, and have supervised stud... Read more

Review:I do not normally order this style of fictional book. I downloaded it because it was on sale. This story actually made me very emotional. I felt the pain and loss of the characters. Very well written. Read more