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The Things That Keep Us Here

10 Ratings: 3.2
A book by Carla Buckley.

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Author: Carla Buckley
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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review by . October 24, 2010
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
This novel has it all: page-turning suspense, great characters, a strong plot and themes that stick with you long after the final page. I found it hard to believe that this is Carla Buckley's first novel.      The highlights of the plot have been well described elsewhere, so I will only say that this book is so well written that it is easy to imagine oneself in a similar predicament. In fact, there were actually points in the plot line where I felt my heart pounding as I …
review by . June 13, 2010
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Carla Buckley has created a chilling story of domestic horror with her debut novel. The scenario is all too believable and topical - global pandemic of avian flu, and a family's struggles to remain in isolation, deal with food shortages and power outages in the midst of lingering grief and family relationship breakdowns.    The strength of this novel is that it is so believable. The mother deals with the petty frustrations of her house bound children as they cope with what is …
review by . October 11, 2010
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Simply Wonderful!
This novel has it all: page-turning suspense, great characters, a strong plot and themes that stick with you long after the final page. I found it hard to believe that this is Carla Buckley's first novel.      The highlights of the plot have been well described elsewhere, so I will only say that this book is so well written that it is easy to imagine oneself in a similar predicament. In fact, there were actually points in the plot line where I felt my heart pounding as I …
review by . April 24, 2010
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
Wow. This was a terrific story (scary though considering that the H1N1 virus was so publicized this year). The premise is that an avian virus, H5N1, shows up and starts spreading extraordinarily fast with an almost 50% fatality rate. People go from getting some groceries for a short stay at home to realizing that even their neighbors can be a threat to their family's health.     Everyone closes themselves in and goes into survival mode as much of our country's infrastructure …
review by . March 13, 2010
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It took me a little bit of time to gather my senses after I'd turned the last pages of this book tonight. I sat silently, halfway between tears and sheer wonderment. I wanted just a few more minutes to soak in this amazing story and how it made me feel. When I sat down earlier this evening to read, I was in the last half of the book but nowhere near the end; when my usual hour of reading came to an end, I found that couldn't bear to put the book down. The next hour came and went, and still I couldn't …
review by . February 17, 2010
Considering all the media time devoted during the last year to the possibility, if not probability, of H1N1 or bird flu pandemics, it is surprising that so few novels have yet been written about the societal breakdown that might accompany either event. Catastrophe of that magnitude offers fertile ground to those writing in several genres: horror, science fiction, romance, literary novel, etc. - so it is only a matter of time, I suspect, before such novels appear in large numbers. "The Things That …
review by . February 09, 2010
Amazing. Absolutely amazing, engrossing and thought provoking. These are words that quickly and simply come to mind when I think of The Things That Keep Us Here. It, quite frankly, blows my mind that this is a debut novel by Carla Buckley. It is incredibly well written, tight, emotional, well-researched and so true-to-life (or what could easily happen in life, right now) that I would expect such work to be written by a veteran author. No, The Things That Keep Us Here is not a laid back, fun, kick-off-your-shoes …
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