Haruki Murakami
What a writer leaves out of a story is as poignant as those details left in, and it is a good and powerful writer who knows what should be guarded and what should be revealed.

A Movable Feast
In this book, there are more glimpses of Hemingway's power of voice and style than you can find in his last four novels, including The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won the Nobel Prize.

Paradise
I spent a week in August in the sun, on the beaches of Cozumel, frolicking in the white sand and snorkeling through the blue water, drinking more than my fill of rum-and-cokes and living in a dream. Fitting, then, that I should have read Toni Morrison's Paradise while in my own personal paradise.

The Rapture of Canaan
Sheri Reynolds wrote a nice book. Not a brilliant book, but a good one.

Spilling Open
The pages of Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself are amazing; every inch is different than the rest. It screams originality. Pages are colored with paint, photos, intriguing words, musical scores, momentos, tea bags, and truthful sadness."

The Swimmer
If you enjoy the American Short Story (enjoy it enough, even, to capitalize each word in an article) and you have not bought The Stories of John Cheever, head to the bookstore or library, buy, check out, steal the book, and read the stories.

The Vampire Armand
Is it for love or money? Love or greed? Love or Lestat? In trying to consider The Vampire Armand a worthy successor to Anne Rice's earlier Vampire Chronicles, those all seem the same question.