I have recently discovered Caroline Leavitt's novels and this has been the lastest one I have read. Like her other novels, her characters are so vivid, they become like your good friends. This novel is no exception. The emotions the different characters embraced made my heart go out to them. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to read a heartwarming story about various relationships intermingled with death, grief, and letting go.

Caroline Leavitt's novel about a young woman dealing with the unexpected death of her fiance is believable and moving. All of Ms. Leavitt's books are great; I also highly recommend "Meeting Rozzy Halfway".

Living Other Lives, Caroline Leavitt's sixth novel, is an absolutely hypnotic read. Showing the innate magnetism that attracts -- and repels -- people, she weaves the lives of multi-generational women and the men they love and lose. This is writing at a fever pitch.

This book is super! This mystery has another mystery inside the first one! The end of the book is extremely surprising!!! I finished this book over the weekend because it was so good!

As in all Wishbone tales this story has us looking at a famous book and dealing with another story. In the case of the mystery tales we have a mystery in another mystery. This makes for a doubly mysterious book. It was funny and kind of scary. It as a surprise at the end as all mysteries are. I liked the book and thing everyone should read the whole series.

Someone is haunting the clubhouse that Joe, Sam, David are hanging out in with some new kids. The person is found, but the REAL mystery is just beginning!

If you want to curl up and read a good book - try this one. It's enjoyable, the characters are interesting and it's got a good plot. It's a five star book for sure.

Family, Caroline Leavitt's fourth luminescent novel, snakes in and out of a group of interrelated lives. As we read of an orphaned boy, and travel through the characters' lives, we deeply feel the love and concerns of daily living. How wonderfully Ms. Leavitt connects the disconnected!

Caroline Leavitt did a great job with this story. The characters were interesting and you care about what happens to them. Good plot and a great read. I enjoyed it very much and am looking forward to her next novel.

Into Thin Air, Caroline Leavitt's fifth novel, is a finely honed treatise on grief and loss, commitment and abandonment. Clearly, this is an author who has suffered -- and who is brave enough to share both the pain and the inevitable healing. From the first page, this is a novel that holds you -- and won't let you go.

I've always read above my age level and some of them are confusing and I have no idea what they're talking about. Wishbone is a great book, it's not supit and it's not like most children books. The writer is wonderful and it makes you want to read the The Prince and the Pauper. Buy this book it's great for all ages!

This book was great. I spent nights reading it. It is a true adventure that will really want you to read more classicals.

This is a wonderful pack that will keep you reading for hours and hours.Wishbone books are wonderfuly funny also!All the story take place around a little dog and he imagines himself as a important character in a famous story!They're verrrrry fun to read!

Caroline Leavitt's achingly moving third novel, Jealousies, shows her great ability to clutch you, move you, make you see and deeply feel what her characters experience -- and lifts her to the first rank of contemporary novelists. She is a poetess of tormented relationships and unrequired love, writing expertly of pain and loss and hope, of the innumerable hurts people do to one another in the ebb and flow of life. Jealousies is a wrenching good read.

It starts off with Joe practicing some basketball warm-ups for his big game that night. Joe has been trying hard to impress the eighth grade coach. Ellen's tooth has been bothering her, so, she decides to go to the dentist. Joe says bye, and his mom tells him if he needs anything to give her a call. It's about 4:30 and all of a sudden the lights go out in Joe's house. He goes in, to see if he can fix the problem. Joe wonders if he'll ever make it to the game on time. This situation reminds Wishbone of Robinson Cruesoe. Robinson Crusoe is this man, doesn't want to work in a hat shop with his father. He goes to seek what he thinks is his true calling. He secretly tells his mom and dad good-bye and that he loves them, and that maybe he would come back some day to see them. Robinson goes to sea, his so called true calling. His ship gets wrecked and he is thrown ashore on an island all by himself. he doesn't know if anyone else survived the shipwreck. So, I only have two questions left for you. Will Joe ever make it to his game on time? Will Robinson ever make it off the island, or will he be stuck there for life? Well, you will have to read this book for yourself; to find out the answers to these two questions. I really enjoyed reading this book, it was really great. I would also reccomend reading Prince and the Pooch, by Caroline Leavitt, and this book, Robinhound Cruesoe, by Caroline Leavitt.

I love a book that can take plot and add to it characters that you want to be with and don't forget. I just loved that little Baby Otis (and naming the baby Otis, just added to his cachet) and it was wonderful watching the characters interact with him. Caroline Leavitt did such a fine job of character development with Molly, her mom, her sister, Suzanne, and her husband, Gary. I really knew these people. The story of Molly's critical illness shortly after giving birth to Otis, and how much this affected so many people was done with marvelous skill. This book is a find.

I loved, loved, loved Coming Back to Me by Caroline Leavitt. The heart-wrenching story is told without sentimentality, yet it made me ache all over for the characters, especially for Gary, as he is the character we get to know most intimately. All the main characters -- Gary, Molly, Suzanne -- have survived serious tragedies and are living through the worst of trials, but they carry on in spite of it and are ultimately redeemed by good, honest love -- and hope, which doesn't always come easy for them, but which they struggle to keep alive nonetheless. Nice doses of humor, sex, and flawed people doing flawed things are thrown into the mix like good spices in contrasting but complementary quantities.

Leavitt's writing style is easy and accessible, her metaphors and images are natural and taken from the commonplace without every being trite or contrived. I feel I know her characters personally and well. Heck, I am her characters, as their emotions and actions ring clear, clean, and true on every level.

The plot of Coming Back to Me is intriguing and kept me reading from start to finish, never once boring or confusing me. The pace is perfectly measured so that it seems completely organic to the characters and the story, with critical reveals coming at just the right times to intensify suspense and keep us reading and rooting for things to work out. As a writer myself, I know that such pacing is extremely difficult to achieve, but Leavitt makes it look easy, despite the considerable skill and intellect it required.

I would put Coming Back to Me in a league with the works of Anne Tyler, whom I adore. Though the book cover quotes a review comparing Leavitt to Sue Miller, I have to say I enjoyed Leavitt's work much more than Miller's (even though I do like Miller).

I've ordered another Leavitt novel, Living Other Lives, and can't wait to read it. I intend to work my way through her entire list, although working hardly describes my Leavitt reading experience. Reveling is more apt -- reveling in the depths of the characters as their lives and emotions are revealed to me steadily and honestly, delivered without flinching and with crystal clarity.

Caroline Leavitt and Coming Back to me are true gems. What's not to love? Highly, highly recommended. I can't get enough of her -- Really!

What I loved about this book, besides getting so immersed with the characters' lives, was the fact that they were so real and filled with life. Gary, Molly, Suzanne, and Otis had their own stories, thoughts, and feelings, which were all woven together beautifully. I thought the author wrote a lovely story about what it would feel like to go from an extremely happy situation to a scary, unknown nightmare. Images stand out in my mind, such as the feeling Gary had when he walked into Otis' room right after Molly got ill and saw the blanket she had special ordered and nearly fell apart. I felt horrible when Ivan left the car to get cigarettes and left Otis in the car. There were images, pieces of conversation, and emotions that were so vivid that any reader, whether or not they have been through a similiar situation, could relate to. It's rare when an author can make me forget about my own life and immerse me so deeply in a piece of writing, which is why I give this novel five stars. I wish I could give it more, but there aren't enough to show how much I appreciate this novel and the excellent work the author displayed.

I am a PP&M fan, but this album left me cold. The selection of songs was relatively uninspired given the repertoire, but it was the vocal interpretations that made it a snoozer. Even one of my all-time favorite songs, "Stewball," was performed in such a weepy, sappy manner that it called for a fast forward.

The use of guest artists seemed like an afterthought. If you are going to use a John Sebastian or a Tom Paxton, why not feature one of their own great songs?

I suppose there are folks who will get into this. You know, the type who get teary eyed singing "Kumbaya" around a camp fire. But, with the exception of an upbeat one-time throwaway called "Virtual Party," this album was a virtual desert.

I wanted to add... I generally find the amazon.com music reviews quite good, surprisingly so in many cases. It's one of the reasons I shop here. However, to refer to "Home Is Where the Heart Is" as an "antihomophobia song" is pretty outrageous, in my opinion. That song is not *anti* anything. It is pure affirmation. It's a beautiful song about love, compassion and understanding. You really should change your review.... Yours, Mark Lane (NY)

Lifelines, the immensely talented Caroline Leavitt's second novel, grips you from page one. As we explore the lives of the women, and plumb the vagueries and anxieties of life, we deeply feel all their joy and pain. In addition, everything from palm reading to photography is described with such great clarity that this is a book you not only read -- but see!