Art of hearing heartbeats

Recommended by a Hewlett patron.

Kirkus: German journalist Sendker's first novel, originally published in German in 2002, is a love story set in Burma and imbued with Eastern spirituality and fairy-tale romanticism. Fans of Nicholas Sparks and/or Elizabeth Gilbert should eat this up.

To be sung underwater

Saw while making it a 28 day book at PN.

Love and humor

Everlasting love

Davidson, Andrew. (2008). The gargoyle. New York: Doubleday.

Kirkus Reviews: A romance spanning centuries and continents finds a grotesque narrator redeemed by the love of a woman who claims they first met seven centuries earlier, in this deliriously ambitious debut novel.It's a credit to the craftsmanship of the Canadian writer that this spellbinding narrative seems considerably less ludicrous when reading it than when summarizing it

The flirt

Maybe not.

Luminous fish

Book of the day on Book-a-Day calendar.


"Originally published as Peces luminosos: historias de amor y ciencia by Tusquets Editorial, Barcelona, 2002."--T.p. verso. "A Sciencewriters Book." Stories, fictional and memoir, of scientists in work and in love.