Terms of Endearment

"They’re doing a biopsy," Emma told him. "That’s the modern way of casting bones". YIKES!!!......You’d like to think modern laboratory medicine has trundled along a bit more than that over the past 100 years. I won’t forget Term of Endearment by Larry McMurty in a hurry. I was a McMurty virgin, but I......more

I had never seen the movie & before doing so I picked up this book by the writer of Lonesome Dove. That work cannot be too easily compared to this estrogen-drenched Fem-Power! novel which paints its heroine Aurora Greenway as a sassy matriarch deeply afraid of becoming a grandmother & too selfaware......more

Abandoned at pg 280. I was expecting this to be a cross between John Updike and Cormac Macarthy. Something challenging and richly resonant. Instead it's a fluffy romcom. How much you enjoy it will depend on how charming and funny you find Aurora and her collection of male suitors. I'm afraid I must b......more

Because I disliked the protagonist, Aurora Greenway, so much, the first three hundred and sixty pages felt like a real chore. Most of the time I felt like throwing my copy through the window just so I’d never have to “listen” to her bullshit again. I’ve got absolutely no complaints about the writing......more