false 6436140 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 2725134 7 2750737 book 1 4 2008 Wit's End total:309|5:17|4:62|3:116|2:79|1:35| 309 874 520 117 1448 2.79 13927 1956 23310324 827193 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.87 277 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 2 2 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 10:16:02 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 10:23:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 22122171 1058324 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 1 2 false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 21:08:48 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 08:20:47 -0700 2008 Readinggroupguides.com contest. I have read The Jane Austen Book Club, which was also set in the Norcal area, so I'm right at home with that.

Epilogue: Just because you get a book for free does not mean you should read it. There was no point or direction...more...]]> 50384597 913537 6436140 0141023562 9780141023564 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6436140-the-case-of-the-imaginary-detective 2.25 4 2008 3 1 false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 02:34:32 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 02:44:37 -0700 2009
The UK jacket copy made the book sound like a lighthearted romp with a fictional detective come to life to help the heroine.

Inste...more...]]> 45193756 1982243 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 3 1 false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 17:08:30 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 17:09:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 65164195 290848 2439325 0143143220 9780143143222 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213671230m/2439325.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213671230s/2439325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2439325.Wit_s_End 2.33 6 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.
Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.
Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 3 0 false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 13:48:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 14:16:22 -0700 2009 We start with the protagonist, Rima Lanisell, arriving a...more...]]> 19896305 566745 2439325 0143143220 9780143143222 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213671230m/2439325.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213671230s/2439325.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2439325.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.
Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.
Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 3 1 false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 16:44:06 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 19:38:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 58646423 41751 6430647 0452290066 9780452290068 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/64/647/6430647-m-1255657005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/64/647/6430647-s-1255657005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6430647-wit-s-end 2.40 10 “[A] delightful and eccentric new tale”(The Boston Globe) from the author of the runaway bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club

In Karen Joy Fowler’s newest novel, the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club once again delivers top-notch storytelling, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is utterly and memorably her own. Wit’s End is a clever, playful novel about finally allowing oneself to grow up—with a dash of mystery thrown in.

At loose ends and weary from her recent losses—the deaths of an inventive if at times irritating father and her beloved brother—Rima Lansill comes to Wit’s End, the home of her legendary godmother, bestselling mystery writer Addison Early, to regroup…and in search of answers. For starters, why did Addison name one of her characters—a murderer—after Rima’s father? But Addison is secretive and feisty, so consumed with protecting her famous fictional detective, Maxwell Lane, from the vagaries of the Internet that—rumor has it— she has writer’s block. As one woman searches for truth, the other struggles to control the reality of her fiction.

Rima soon becomes enmeshed in Addison’s household of eccentrics: a formerly alcoholic cook and her irksome son, two quirky dog-walkers, a mysterious stalker, the tiny characters that populate Addison’s dollhouse crime-scene replicas, and even Maxwell Lane himself. But, wrapped up in a mystery that may or may not be of her own creation, Rima discovers to her surprise that the ultimate solution to this puzzle is the new family she has found at the house called Wit’s End.

Playfully exploring the blurred boundaries between reality and virtual reality, fiction and fact, Karen Joy Fowler subverts the whodunit and gives us a thoroughly modern meta-mystery with wit, warmth, and heart.]]> 2008 4 1 false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 09:03:02 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 15:29:21 -0700 2009
It was very... cur...more...]]> 45463322 1008236 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:56:45 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:56:45 -0800 2009 Critical reception of Wit's End ran the full gamut. Like The Jane Austen Book Club, the novel should appeal to lovers of mystery books and to readers who enjoy pondering the relationship between characters, their creators, and their fan bases. Yet while these critics couldn't put the book down, othe...

more...]]> 26748852 157205 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 4 1 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 08:46:52 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 09:36:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 22360220 300318 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 3 0 false Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 07:04:14 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 18:00:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 22181340 1147841 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 4 1 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue May 13 15:56:22 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 15:58:51 -0700 2008 including highly imaginative plots for the books written by Addis...more...]]> 21979647 388385 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 4 0 false Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 09:11:14 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 09:05:11 -0700 2008
Thi...more...]]> 20119891 1030022 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 2 0 false Sat Apr 26 19:27:13 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 07:34:07 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 19:26:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 40090713 1064221 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 4 0 false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 13:45:03 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 13:45:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 47274002 1725665 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 3 0 false Mon Feb 23 11:41:18 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 09:35:40 -0800 2009

Now that I've finished it, I have to say there wasn't enough about the giant eyeball.

There was though a lot about Santa Cruz and a good deal about perception of persons. Is a celebrity a) who they think they are b)...more...]]> 42688064 903051 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 3 0 false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 11:23:19 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 11:25:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 51094437 2177969 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 3 0 false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 18:53:30 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 19:10:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 59716466 384163 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 3 0 false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 06:14:40 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 14:59:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 62073870 2384898 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 1 0 false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 19:10:02 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 20:39:38 -0700 2009 1
I read this book on a bus trip to Milwaukee....more...]]> 55524726 2302725 2725134 0399154752 9780399154751 105 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-m-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/27/134/2725134-s-1255657015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725134.Wit_s_End 2.83 309 Wit's End is many things: a quest novel - a young woman's search for the truth about her dead father's past; a mystery - the story of a long-ago murder in which that father might have been complicit; and a game - one that ensnares readers in cunning deceptions, challenging them to separate the true from the fictive.

Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, the novel centers on Rima Lanisell, a young woman at loose ends, having just lost her father to cancer. (Rima seems to lose people and things habitually - sunglasses and car keys, lovers and family members.) Now she has come to coastal California at the behest of her godmother, Addison Early, who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what that relationship was really about.

Addison, a bestselling mystery writer, is secretive and feisty. Over the years, she has tried to protect her work and her privacy as her passionate fans have become ever more intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans have begun to take over the plot lines and the life of her famous fictional detective. For many, he is more real than Addison herself. So Wit's End is also a highly inventive take on the way dedicated readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft applauded the world over - except by authors.

Above all, Wit's End is Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is uniquely and memorably her own.]]> 2008 2 0 false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 18:15:51 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 15:21:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6436140