Member: charmaine288

Noticed you liked The God of Small Things, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a grief-stricken family. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter)in case you'd like to read more about the novel before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 9:24 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2009

Hi, Charmaine,

Thanks writing. I must admit I am biased when it comes to Updike, believing all of his books are transcendent, so this reply is far from objective! The Rabbit series is my favorite, but I can also highly recommend both Beck and Brazil. If you read either or both, please let me know what you think.

Max

posted by maxbean at 10:29 am (EST) on Sep 27, 2008

It's always a pleasure to hear from a fellow Updike fan. Some of my favorites are short stories, a form at which Updike is a master. Two early collections I especially like are "Problems and Other Stories" and "Museums and Women." Both of these include stories from a long series he wrote about the Maples, a couple he tracked through early marriage, through affairs, to the inevitable breakup. A big omnibus, "The Early Stories," published a year or two ago, has tons of good reading.

As for the Rabbit books, they're special, I think, because they were a departure from the gentry he was writing about when he started the series. Rabbit Angstrom is Updike's Everyman, in all the gritty detail. You love him and hate him by turns, but he's always engaging and always has your sympathy. He's an amazingly rich character. I'd definitely recommend the Rabbit novels.

It was great to hear from you. Thanks for taking the time.

batty

posted by batty at 1:33 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2008

Hi - I wanted to assure you that it routinely takes a couple of months from when the publisher gets the list for an Early Reviewer book to arrive. Know that it's been noted, and your chances of winning the upcoming batch has not been affected. Check the Early Reviewers group to see when others are receiving their copies of the same book:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.p...

Sonya
LibraryThing

posted by sonyagreen at 2:53 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2008

Try to see if you can use tags to indicate the books you want to read. I have not tried using tags yet, but it might work.

posted by eugenegant at 2:22 pm (EST) on Jan 17, 2007

I had to be the first to vandalize your comment section with my spray can. Look what I just discovered, appears this one will be go down as a classic: Suite Française:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksea...

Have you heard of it?

posted by eugenegant at 8:53 am (EST) on Jan 17, 2007