Pérez-Reverte, Arturo: The Queen of the South

Read August 12, 2005.
Reviewed.
Recommended.

Smith, Russell: The Princess and the Whiskheads

Read August 3, 2005.
Called "a fable."
The worth of beautiful, sculptural architecture without function versus a repaired, improved, and extended sewage system.
I paid $2 for it and I'm not sorry I did.

Auster, Paul: In the Country of Last Things

Read July 29, 2005.
Reflections.
Quoted at length.

Mosley, Walter: The Man in My Basement

Read July 31, 2005.

Well-crafted. Good characters. Original story. Poses some philosophical questions. Suspenseful.

The man in the basement could be viewed as a device by which to explore the man in the basement of the narrator's mind or conscience.

I read it in one sitting. Enjoyed it, but it didn't speak to me.