false <![CDATA[Boy's Life]]> 11553 11 Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever.<P>As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father's sanity and his own life hang in the <P> 955445 book 1991 Boy's Life total:1552|5:773|4:488|3:242|2:42|1:7| 1552 6634 1985 228 5 7 false false Wed Jul 23 19:45:51 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 19:51:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Mar 20 07:56:25 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 06:30:37 -0700 2008
On the surface, Boy's Life may see like another fluffy, cross-genre book--is it a crime novel? Is it horror? Is it fantasy? Is it a coming-of-age story?--but that would be selling it short. There...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 07 06:27:59 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 06:27:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false true Thu Jan 15 07:29:24 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 08:41:43 -0800 2009

"Let's go then! Summer's s...
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I've corrupted... er converted many friends and family to reading this book. That includes reading it aloud to my foster mom one semester, getting both my sisters to read it, my boss and my non-reader friend Lisa.

The scene in the Church with the m...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Tue Feb 12 15:37:21 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 15:39:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 09 22:58:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 17:26:21 -0700 2009 Mr. McCammons prose flow like sweet melted butter. Robert McCammons writing is top notch, head and shoulders above the rest. This is perhaps the best coming of age story I have ever read.
A murder in the small southern town of Zephyr is merely the canvas used to paint a much ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 12:54:55 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 08:24:31 -0700 2009
Came across this when jumping around on goodreads and then looked it up on Amazon. As the goodreads reviewer said - 'hundreds of reviews and the book still has 5 stars'... i was intrigued. Harper Lee references gave me some sense of ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 16:25:11 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 11:18:37 -0800 2009
Back in the glorious 1960s, when men were milkmen, women spent much of their time baking, and children said "Yes, sir"...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Thu Mar 26 22:05:14 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 22:13:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 19:23:58 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 19:16:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 12 09:24:53 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 09:27:12 -0800 2009
Protagonist Cory Mackenson is a 12-year-old boy in a small Alabama down during the days before desegregation. McCammon writes about Cory's experiences watching his father lose his job as a milk...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 20 14:20:34 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 14:30:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Aug 23 20:02:26 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 21:01:32 -0700 2009 It's one of those coming of age stories, this one set back when the Beach Boys were new, and it reminded me a lot of "Dandelion Wine...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11553