Something Blue (a novel): Charming or not?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of this surprising novel by Emily Giffin.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/something-quite-blue/

Remembering those lazy, hazy, crazy days of college...

Click on the orange link below to read a review of a very funny upcoming book from Richard Rushfield.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/glory-days/

Read this review now, buy the book tomorrow...

Click on the orange link below to read a guest review of Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. This book will go on sale tomorrow, Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/take-two/

Coming up next...

A "guest" review of Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenneger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife. Niffeneger's new book will be released on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

A bit off key...

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/off-key-off-season/

Coming up next...

A review of the novel Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons.

If you liked No One You Know, will you like The Year of Fog?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Michelle Richmond's book The Year of Fog. Richmond is the author of the best-selling novel No One You Know.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/the-year-of-fog/

Coming Up Next...

A review of The Year of Fog, a novel set in San Francisco, by Michelle Richmond. Richmond is the author of No One You Know.

The new novel by the author of The Time Traveler's Wife...

Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger is a tale about twin sisters who discover their aunt's ghost still residing in an inherited home. Click on the orange link below to read a review of this ghost tale which will be released on September 29, 2009.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/what-comes-next/

Coming Up Next...

A review of Her Fearful Symmetry. This is the new novel from Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife.

Do birds sing along the border?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Border Songs, a rather fine and fun novel from Jim Lynch.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/border-song/

Interested in reading something completely different?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of The Commoner: A Novel by John Burnham Schwartz, a story of different people from a different land.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/something-completely-different/

Coming up next...

A review of The Commoner: A Novel by John Burnham Schwartz. Not long from now, so please check back soon.

Why Do We Drive the Way We Do?

Does the book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do have the answers? Click on the orange link below to read a review.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/crash/

Coming Up Next...

A review of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt. Is it worth reading? Come and check out our opinion, soon.

The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter (a book review)

Click on the orange link below to read a review of The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter by Holly Robinson. Is this memoir worth reading?

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/potential-is-a-heavy-burden/

Coming Up Next...

A review of The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter: A Memoir by Holly Robinson.

We're giving away 5 copies of Beat the Reaper!

If you like the TV show House or fun thrillers, you might like to win a free copy of Beat the Reaper, the debut novel by author and M.D. John Bazell. Click on the orange link below to read the simple and easy contest rules.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/a-book-giveaway-beat-the-reaper/

A great city, beautifully designed...

We're talking about Washington, D.C. Click on the orange link below to read a review of a book that documents how the city was designed, destroyed and then rebuilt. Fascinating!

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/when-our-capitol-burned/

A fictional true crime story?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of No One You Know by Michelle Richmond (The Year of Fog).

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/mystery-to-me/

Looking for a good new crime novel?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Alibi: A Crime Novel by Teri Woods.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/tell-the-truth/

A Thrilling True Story About A Man Who Might Have Been President?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld by Bradley Graham.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/big-time/

It Was A Very Good Run...

Click on the orange link below to read a review of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/running-full/

Coming Up Next...

A review of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami.

Best Friends Forever, in conclusion...

Click on the orange link below to read the conclusion of a two-part review of Best Friends Forever: A Novel.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/best-friends-forever-a-novel-part-two/

Is Best Friends Forever a typical chick-lit book? Hardly.

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner, who wrote In Her Shoes and Good in Bed.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/best-friends-forever/

Munchy gets his beauty sleep...

Do men have to worry about their looks, too?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of the book Two Years, No Rain by Shawn Klomparens.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/wholl-start-the-rain/

Flirting and past Forty?

Jane Porter is the author of Flirting with Forty, recently made into a Lifetime TV network movie. Click on the orange link below to read a review of her latest novel, Easy on the Eyes. Hope, fear, self-esteem and plastic surgery?

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/in-your-eyes/

If you like House on TV, you may like this medical thriller...

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Oxygen by Carol Cassella.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/oxygen/

Coming up next...

A review of the medical-legal novel Oxygen by Carol Cassella. This review will be posted tomorrow at http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/ .

Did you like the book Into Thin Air?

If so, you may or may not like The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washington, America's Greatest Mountaineer by David Roberts. Click on the orange link below to read a review.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/aint-no-mountain-high-enough/

Can a crime novel represent reality? Can it be fun?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Try Fear by James Scott Bell.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/try-fear-have-fun/

Would you like to live your life over again?

How about seven years worth? Would you make better choices now knowing what you didn't know then? Really?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/ive-had-the-time-of-my-life/

Heading to a baby shower? Need the right gift?

Munchy the cat has just the gift recommendation for you! Click on the orange link below to read his comments...

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/like-a-tiger/

Grief

Grief
By Joseph

Grief...
I don't understand...

I don't understand
How we can love
someone
How we can know
someone
And then they
can suddenly be
gone...

Is it a cosmic joke
Is it a lesson to be
learned...
Is it meant to humble
us, to hurt us
To make us feel
like fools?

But then we remember...
Who they were
What they taught us
What they said...

How they loved us
How they needed us
How they live inside
us...

How they are as
real as anything
that has ever been...

How they were as
much as we will
ever be...

We live, incomplete,
but yet fuller
because of them.


Photo: flickr (Andrea in grief, NCBrian)

Remember when we had great sport biographies for young adults?

Click on the orange link below to read a review of Little Pancho: The Life of Tennis Legend Pancho Segura by Caroline Seebohm.

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/anyone-for-tennis/