Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Reviews

I had to pop on and do a review of this book as I absolutley love it, is is possibly one of my favourites. I belong to a book group who had done this book just before I joined and they highly recommended it to me - what a great recommend!! The protagonist makes you feel such empathy with him and by the end you really feel ...

The opening line of "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides is "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan in August of 1974." This intriguing conundrum is explained promptly as we are then informed of ...

You know what it's like at airports, those couple of hours in departures, shuffling aimlessly from shop to shop, hoping to magically pass the time. I always end up parting with cash in the bookstore, because somehow it's justified when you're off on holiday. This time I dithered over the lovely stacks of books, and ended up with ...