Caroline added a quote:
"To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?" you can say, "Sorry, got these sacks.'" — Jack Handey

Caroline added a quote:
"As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable- until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!" — Jack Handey

Caroline read and liked Michelle's review of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital:

"This book quietly destroys me. I mean that in the best possible way, friendships, growing up, working at an amusement park. Ah August in the the humid northeast. "

Caroline read and liked Michael's review of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital:

"Every once in a while you read a news story about a recluse who's devoted his life to some miniature: the New York skyline on a grain of rice, Angkor Wat in porcelain. This is how this novel feels to me. Not to speculate about Ms. Moore, who I have n...more Every once in a while you read a news story about a recluse who's devoted his life to some miniature: the New York skyline on a grain of rice, Angkor Wat in porcelain. This is how this novel feels to me. Not to speculate about Ms. Moore, who I have no reason to believe is a bearded recluse (indeed, the author photo informs me she is a stone-cold hottie). Frog Hospital -- which I love, love, love -- isn't a novel of great inventiveness, or scope, or wisdom. It is a book of breathtaking craft. Moore takes her stock-standard, ever-powerful themes -- innocence and its loss is the biggie -- and renders them in prose so perfect, so buffed and polished, that I want to pick up the sentences, quote them, put them under glass.
Nobody who I've recommended this to has liked it anywhere as much as I do. So, based on historical data, let me offer you a qualified recommendation: read this. You'll enjoy it (it's short, funny, and uncomplicated: hard to hate), but you probably won't think it's all that great. And you'll be wrong.(less) "