After hearing such praise for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter from you and prettyfool, I bought a copy today. The first full price fiction book I've bought in over two years.


I wasn't a fan of The Secret Life of Bees. It came free with a "women's magazine" so I wasn't expecting much. It just seemed incredibly cliche and emotionally manipulative. Also, I like books to have some foot in reality, if they are supposed to be a realistic novel.

I enjoyed Cloud Atlas also, but I need to go back and re-read it, because I skipped the middle section because I was unwell and couldn't handle the dialect. The first and final sections were so touching.