Category: Fiction

Fairway to Heaven
Written by J. David Barron
Published by A Ladder Press Publishing Book
ISBN: 097937653

Reviewed by Lauren Lapinski

Golf, just the thought of the word and one automatically thinks of players such as Tiger Woods or movies such as Happy Gilmore. It is a sport loved by many and lost on by just as many people in all parts of the world. Fairway to Heaven is a book that both explores a passion for golf and the faith one has in Christianity.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Written by Muriel Barbery
Published by Europa editions
ISBN10: 1933372605
ISBN13: 9781933372600

Review by Linda Yau

It took me a while to get through this book, but I have finally made through it, and what a reading time that it was. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is an unlikely story of friendship between social classes. Set in Paris, Renée is a widowed concierge of an apartment building. Her employers are all families of bourgeois backgrounds, and she makes her observations of them on a first person narrative. Renée seemingly gets by in life by deceiving nearly everyone of her intelligence and appreciation of knowledge.
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Hymie and the Angel
Written by Norman Beim
Published by Newconcept Press
ISBN10: 0931231094
ISBN13: 9780931231094

Review by Linda Yau

What would happen if you learned that you had four months to live. Would you accept this impending death sentence or curse your ill luck? Now what would happen if you had a personal angel, and there was a loophole to escape Death’s clutches? This is the situation for tavern owner, Hymie who learns of his death sentence. He has the fortune to befriend a disgraced angel named Adam. Adam bargains with Death for him the opportunity for Hymie to find someone else to take his place. If he finds someone to take his place, then he wouldn’t need to die. What would happen when Hymie questions who exactly would be willing to sacrifice their life to save him?
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Story by Andrew Sean Greer
Published by Picador, imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN10: 0312423810
ISBN13: 9780312423810

Review by Linda Yau

Although, their plot may sound similar – The Confessions of Max Tivoli is not the same as The Curious Case of Benjamen Button. I kid you not, although this might be an attraction to read a plot alike book. Both have protagonists that ages backward, and I believe that is where the similarities end. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I have read The Confessions Of Max Tivoli.
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