Turn Up the Heat: A Couples Guide to Sexual Intimacy

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One of God's greatest gifts is the pleasure and privilege of sex within marriage. Dr. Kevin Leman knows even married people have lots of questions about sex, but sometimes they feel too embarrassed to ask or don't know where to turn for the best answers. For all those questions readers couldn't imagine asking their pastor or even their close friends, Dr. Leman is ready with open ears and expert advice. Often asked about sex and intimacy as he speaks and travels, he bets that some of those questions are the ones readers want answered too. With his trademark humor and wit, he offers frank answers to the burning questions all of us have about sex. Covering such topics as God's original intentions for sex, body image, attraction, expectations, sex drive, sex after children arrive, and much, much more, Turn Up the Heat is comprehensive in scope and just what the doctor ordered. Readers will not only get the answers they crave but plenty of the hearty chuckles they expect from Leman. Perfect for newlyweds or couples who have been married for years.
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 "Not what I was expecting" 2009-07-11
By Soul Thirsty
I will preface this with the fact that I only read half of the book and scanned the rest of the book for points of interest to me. Having read other Christian marriage books on the topic, I was hoping that Turn Up The Heat would provide new insights on continuing to keep things sizzling. I was disappointed. This book is mostly question and answers, discussing topics such as what to expect on a honeymoon, what if one person is more interested than the other, communication, etc. After reading the first half of the book, I felt like most of the responses boiled down to, everyone is different and just keep communication open. And I had already heard many of the concepts from other books. I was also disappointed that there wasn't much discussion about the Bible or how your faith can affect your intimacy, but perhaps that wasn't the point of his book.



This is a good book for Christians or non-Christians with a traditional, conservative background who have not explored this topic before and have not been able to discuss their sexual relationship with their partner. Dr. Kevin Leman has a nice, light, comical way of responding to common questions.



For women interested in a book with more references to the Bible or a deeper look into specific topics, I would recommend Intimate Issues: 21 Questions Christian Women Ask About Sex. Intimacy Ignited: Conversations Couple to Couple: Fire Up Your Sex Life with the Song of Solomon is also a great book to read as a couple (or individually) and delves into the Song of Solomon. That's a pretty sizzling one.

 "I was clueless in Chicago." 2009-07-03
By ChicagoFan (Chicago, IL)
If you are looking to re-ignite your love life, this is the book for you! Definitely a great book for a man to read. Leman shoots it to us straight. It sure taught me a thing or two. Like most men, I didn't think this book would teach me anything, but it made a big difference in our relationship.

 "A Book Even Your Husband Will Read...really!" 2009-06-10
By loves to read
After reading Have A New Kid by Friday Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days and seeing how much the relationship between me and my daughter became better, I decided to check out other books by Dr. Leman and I stumbled across his Turn Up the Heat in hopes that I could improve aspects of my marriage as well as I have with my daughter. WOW!!! What a tremendous difference in our sex life. Quite frankly, I didn't think it could improve that much and my husband? I think he's going to become a "Leman groupie"! I never thought I'd see the day that my husband would read a book about relationships!! I asked him why he'd read this one, and he said that he liked the candor and guilt-free style and encouraging advice that Dr. Leman has. This book handles intimate topics with Dr. Leman's same degree of readability and humor as his other books. It is an easy read and yet full of impacting advice. I would highly recommend this book. My husband and I are a path that I didn't think was possible and we thank Dr. Leman for helping us get there. We're going to check out his Sheet Music next!!

 "No more boring bedroom in my house!" 2009-05-22
By Carmen Ackelson (New York)
Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage



This book is just what the doctor ordered--and a lot more fun than taking medicine. After a few years of marriage, let's face it. Sexual intimacy can get, well, boring. But no more. My husband and I just read Turn Up the Heat, and that's exactly what it's done for us. My husband has always been the "adventuresome" one, and I've always been reticent to try anything new. I grew up in a home where I was taught to be modest so taking any risks in the bedroom has been hard for me. But this book answered lots of questions I had that I didn't dare ask anyone else--even my husband. Dr. Leman made me appreciate who I am--and encouraged me to be the woman I want to be, free of embarrassment. If you're like me, and you want straight talk about marital sex, what your spouse wants, how often you should "do it," some creative suggestions for what to do when you're "too pooped to whoop," and some guilt-free advice that will help you see yourself (yup, love handles and all) and your spouse in a whole new light, this is the book for you. No more boring in our bedroom now, that's for sure! And I'm REALLY liking it.

 "Turn up the Heat (Review)" 2009-05-18
By Cindy Loven (Arkansas)
Turn up the Heat A Couples Guide to Sexual Intimacy

Dr. Kevin Leman

2009

Revell

[...]

Non-fiction/Love and marriage/relationships



Reviewed by Cindy Loven



Want a sex life that makes you want to twist and shout, is what the back cover of this book has on it. Dr. Kevin Leman the author of the best-seller Sheet Music, has brought us another book to deal with the things most of us are too embarrassed to ask about. Sexual intimacy, is a subject that most people are very interested in, but would never ask questions about.



So you want to know....



how to have honeymoon sex after 20 years

how to make your honeymoon a experience you will always remember

the right way to do "it" if there is a right or wrong way

how much sex is normal, or how little sex is normal

is oral sex OK?? is anything "wrong" in the marriage bed

how to have a normal sex life after children

how to keep the sparks alive in your marriage



Dr. Leman addresses all these topics plus many more in this book, I really enjoyed the format of this book, he would write briefly on each topic, and then answer questions from patients and readers. Turn up the Heat is a book that all married couples can benefit from, and a must read for newly-weds. Dr. Leman also addresses how to deal with and approach your spouse, when there are problems, he also addresses how to deal with a marriage partner who was sexually abused. This book is a easy reading book and definitely a book that I would recommend to others. He keeps it clean, addresses all questions from a Biblical standpoint, and is very discreet with his answers. 301 pages $17.99 US


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Isle of Palms (2004)

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Anna Lutz Abbot thinks she has her independence, and therefore her happiness, intact. She is a capable woman, a sensible woman, not someone given to risky living.

This all seems to be true enough until her lovely daughter returns from college for the summer a very different person, her wild and wonderful ex-husband arrives, and her flamboyant new best friend takes up with her daddy, turning a hot summer into a steaming one--only to be cranked up another ten degrees by Anna's own fling with Arthur, who is, heaven help us, a Yankee. All the action unfolds under the watchful eyes of Miss Mavis and Miss Angel, her next-door neighbors of a certain age, who have plenty to say about Anna's past, present, and future.
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 "Southern Chick Book that delivers laughs and self-reflection!" 2009-08-08
By G. Maddox (NW Florida)
Dorothea Benton Frank's "Isle of Palms" delivered great giggles and laughs but also makes you reflect on your own "emotional baggage" and how you need to heave it over the side. Isle of Palms chronicles the life of a woman from childhood and the loss of her young mother, through a bitter upbringing, a date rape with motherhood attached, and clear into adulthood and the revelation that she is finally, independent, successful and happy through all the bitterness of the past.



Dottie Frank has the ability to develop characters you want to know and love, or hate. Her stories teach a life lesson as they take unexpected twists and turns. You'll quickly get caught up in this book, and you will laugh-out-loud at the "love scene in a boat." I've read several of Dottie Frank's books and heartily recommend all of them.



[...]

 "Falling Apart at the Seams" 2009-07-31
By Katie A. (GA)
After a slightly corny start, the novel proceeds to draw the reader in to an authentic world with vivid characters. (I have spent part of every summer on this island for the past 20 years.)I couldn't put it down...until about 3/4's of the way through, when it completely fell apart. It became tedious,boring,and predictable, as if the author herself had gotten tired of the project and wanted nothing more than to hasten its end. Certain themes were never resolved; others were rushed to an early,trite conclusion.



It's sad, because she really had something good going for a while.

 "Good beach book" 2009-07-20
By Kelley D. Smith
I'm actually still reading it, but so far a good book along the line of her other beach books.

 "Paperback" 2009-05-09
By K. Balsamo (Newton, KS)
This is a very reputable seller. The paperback

arrived in wonderful shape. I have already read

it and passed it on to a dear friend to enjoy.

 "Great beach book" 2008-12-16
By E Anderson (Pennsylvania)
I liked Isle of Palms much better than the first Dorothea Benton Frank book I read. This one was much more of a beachy, fun book than Plantation. The book is about a woman named Anna who has had some very hard ups and downs throughout her life and decides to make some major changes with the help of those she loves the most. She basically takes a major step and buys her own house on the Isle of Palms, the only place she feels totally at home. The characters she meets there and also some people she reconnects with help Anna to make some major life changes and have some fun along the way. It's a really fun beach book to read!


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Anna Lutz Abbot thinks she has her independence, and therefore her happiness, intact. She is a capable woman, a sensible woman, not someone given to risky living.

This all seems to be true enough until her lovely daughter returns from college for the summer a very different person, her wild and wonderful ex-husband arrives, and her flamboyant new best friend takes up with her daddy, turning a hot summer into a steaming one--only to be cranked up another ten degrees by Anna's own fling with Arthur, who is, heaven help us, a Yankee. All the action unfolds under the watchful eyes of Miss Mavis and Miss Angel, her next-door neighbors of a certain age, who have plenty to say about Anna's past, present, and future.
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 "Southern Chick Book that delivers laughs and self-reflection!" 2009-08-08
By G. Maddox (NW Florida)
Dorothea Benton Frank's "Isle of Palms" delivered great giggles and laughs but also makes you reflect on your own "emotional baggage" and how you need to heave it over the side. Isle of Palms chronicles the life of a woman from childhood and the loss of her young mother, through a bitter upbringing, a date rape with motherhood attached, and clear into adulthood and the revelation that she is finally, independent, successful and happy through all the bitterness of the past.



Dottie Frank has the ability to develop characters you want to know and love, or hate. Her stories teach a life lesson as they take unexpected twists and turns. You'll quickly get caught up in this book, and you will laugh-out-loud at the "love scene in a boat." I've read several of Dottie Frank's books and heartily recommend all of them.



[...]

 "Falling Apart at the Seams" 2009-07-31
By Katie A. (GA)
After a slightly corny start, the novel proceeds to draw the reader in to an authentic world with vivid characters. (I have spent part of every summer on this island for the past 20 years.)I couldn't put it down...until about 3/4's of the way through, when it completely fell apart. It became tedious,boring,and predictable, as if the author herself had gotten tired of the project and wanted nothing more than to hasten its end. Certain themes were never resolved; others were rushed to an early,trite conclusion.



It's sad, because she really had something good going for a while.

 "Good beach book" 2009-07-20
By Kelley D. Smith
I'm actually still reading it, but so far a good book along the line of her other beach books.

 "Paperback" 2009-05-09
By K. Balsamo (Newton, KS)
This is a very reputable seller. The paperback

arrived in wonderful shape. I have already read

it and passed it on to a dear friend to enjoy.

 "Great beach book" 2008-12-16
By E Anderson (Pennsylvania)
I liked Isle of Palms much better than the first Dorothea Benton Frank book I read. This one was much more of a beachy, fun book than Plantation. The book is about a woman named Anna who has had some very hard ups and downs throughout her life and decides to make some major changes with the help of those she loves the most. She basically takes a major step and buys her own house on the Isle of Palms, the only place she feels totally at home. The characters she meets there and also some people she reconnects with help Anna to make some major life changes and have some fun along the way. It's a really fun beach book to read!


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Anna Lutz Abbot thinks she has her independence, and therefore her happiness, intact. She is a capable woman, a sensible woman, not someone given to risky living.

This all seems to be true enough until her lovely daughter returns from college for the summer a very different person, her wild and wonderful ex-husband arrives, and her flamboyant new best friend takes up with her daddy, turning a hot summer into a steaming one--only to be cranked up another ten degrees by Anna's own fling with Arthur, who is, heaven help us, a Yankee. All the action unfolds under the watchful eyes of Miss Mavis and Miss Angel, her next-door neighbors of a certain age, who have plenty to say about Anna's past, present, and future.
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 "Southern Chick Book that delivers laughs and self-reflection!" 2009-08-08
By G. Maddox (NW Florida)
Dorothea Benton Frank's "Isle of Palms" delivered great giggles and laughs but also makes you reflect on your own "emotional baggage" and how you need to heave it over the side. Isle of Palms chronicles the life of a woman from childhood and the loss of her young mother, through a bitter upbringing, a date rape with motherhood attached, and clear into adulthood and the revelation that she is finally, independent, successful and happy through all the bitterness of the past.



Dottie Frank has the ability to develop characters you want to know and love, or hate. Her stories teach a life lesson as they take unexpected twists and turns. You'll quickly get caught up in this book, and you will laugh-out-loud at the "love scene in a boat." I've read several of Dottie Frank's books and heartily recommend all of them.



[...]

 "Falling Apart at the Seams" 2009-07-31
By Katie A. (GA)
After a slightly corny start, the novel proceeds to draw the reader in to an authentic world with vivid characters. (I have spent part of every summer on this island for the past 20 years.)I couldn't put it down...until about 3/4's of the way through, when it completely fell apart. It became tedious,boring,and predictable, as if the author herself had gotten tired of the project and wanted nothing more than to hasten its end. Certain themes were never resolved; others were rushed to an early,trite conclusion.



It's sad, because she really had something good going for a while.

 "Good beach book" 2009-07-20
By Kelley D. Smith
I'm actually still reading it, but so far a good book along the line of her other beach books.

 "Paperback" 2009-05-09
By K. Balsamo (Newton, KS)
This is a very reputable seller. The paperback

arrived in wonderful shape. I have already read

it and passed it on to a dear friend to enjoy.

 "Great beach book" 2008-12-16
By E Anderson (Pennsylvania)
I liked Isle of Palms much better than the first Dorothea Benton Frank book I read. This one was much more of a beachy, fun book than Plantation. The book is about a woman named Anna who has had some very hard ups and downs throughout her life and decides to make some major changes with the help of those she loves the most. She basically takes a major step and buys her own house on the Isle of Palms, the only place she feels totally at home. The characters she meets there and also some people she reconnects with help Anna to make some major life changes and have some fun along the way. It's a really fun beach book to read!


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Anna Lutz Abbot considers herself independent and happy, until one steamy summer when she must find a way to deal with the secrets of her unpredictable family-and her past.
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 "Southern Chick Book that delivers laughs and self-reflection!" 2009-08-08
By G. Maddox (NW Florida)
Dorothea Benton Frank's "Isle of Palms" delivered great giggles and laughs but also makes you reflect on your own "emotional baggage" and how you need to heave it over the side. Isle of Palms chronicles the life of a woman from childhood and the loss of her young mother, through a bitter upbringing, a date rape with motherhood attached, and clear into adulthood and the revelation that she is finally, independent, successful and happy through all the bitterness of the past.



Dottie Frank has the ability to develop characters you want to know and love, or hate. Her stories teach a life lesson as they take unexpected twists and turns. You'll quickly get caught up in this book, and you will laugh-out-loud at the "love scene in a boat." I've read several of Dottie Frank's books and heartily recommend all of them.



[...]

 "Falling Apart at the Seams" 2009-07-31
By Katie A. (GA)
After a slightly corny start, the novel proceeds to draw the reader in to an authentic world with vivid characters. (I have spent part of every summer on this island for the past 20 years.)I couldn't put it down...until about 3/4's of the way through, when it completely fell apart. It became tedious,boring,and predictable, as if the author herself had gotten tired of the project and wanted nothing more than to hasten its end. Certain themes were never resolved; others were rushed to an early,trite conclusion.



It's sad, because she really had something good going for a while.

 "Good beach book" 2009-07-20
By Kelley D. Smith
I'm actually still reading it, but so far a good book along the line of her other beach books.

 "Paperback" 2009-05-09
By K. Balsamo (Newton, KS)
This is a very reputable seller. The paperback

arrived in wonderful shape. I have already read

it and passed it on to a dear friend to enjoy.

 "Great beach book" 2008-12-16
By E Anderson (Pennsylvania)
I liked Isle of Palms much better than the first Dorothea Benton Frank book I read. This one was much more of a beachy, fun book than Plantation. The book is about a woman named Anna who has had some very hard ups and downs throughout her life and decides to make some major changes with the help of those she loves the most. She basically takes a major step and buys her own house on the Isle of Palms, the only place she feels totally at home. The characters she meets there and also some people she reconnects with help Anna to make some major life changes and have some fun along the way. It's a really fun beach book to read!


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How the Hula Girl Sings: A Novel

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"A wonderful accomplishment. . . . The power is in the writing. Mr. Meno is a superb craftsman."-Hubert Selby Jr.

"The author moves the story along at a surprisingly fast and easy pace. The evil eyes of small-town America seem to peer from every page of Meno's claustrophobic noir, where the good and the bad are forced down the same violent paths."-Kirkus Reviews

"Joe Meno writes with the energy, honesty, and emotional impact of the best punk rock."-Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic, Chicago Sun-Times

"A likable winner that should bolster Meno's reputation." -Publishers Weekly

"Joe Meno writes with the energy, honesty, and emotional impact of the best punk rock." -Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times

"Fans of hard-boiled pulp fiction will particularly enjoy this novel." -Booklist

A young ex-con in a small Illinois town. A lonely giant with a haunted past. A beautiful girl with a troubled heart. Strange and darkly magical, How the Hula Girl Sings begins exactly where most pulp fiction usually ends, with the vivid episode of the terrible crime itself. Three years later, Luce Lemay, out on parole for the awful tragedy, does his best to finds hope: in a new job at the local Gas-N-Go; in his companion and fellow ex-con, Junior Breen, who spells out puzzling messages to the unquiet ghosts of his past; and finally, in the arms of the lovely but reckless Charlene. How the Hula Girl Sings is a suspenseful exploration of a country bright with the far-off stars of forgiveness and dark with the still-looming shadow of the death penalty.

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 "dissatisfaction" 2006-05-17
By adam (Annandale, NY)
I seem to be the lone voice on this, but I found this book to be a real disappointment. The dialogue was often too elaborate and misplaced, making the conversations unrealistic. Other parts, such as the sheriff "calling a doctor" and telling the characters to escape town, rather than take them to a hospital and try arresting the offenders, just got me plain mad because of the implausibility. However, the thing that really capped off my dislike for the book was Meno's constant repetition in description.



"No dainty gloom could make a body feel more lonesome than missing a tooth. It made me feel improper to smile. Losing that molar over a girl who wouldn't even spare me a kiss made me feel like the imperial king of all fools. Nothing else could make me feel so low."



After reading iterative writing like that, extended to 209 pages, I felt like taking a thesaurus and bashing the author in the head with it.



This book, every component of it, was a disgrace to the literary accomplishments Meno created in Hairstyles of the Damned.

 "Lyrical, Poetic Neo-Noir" 2005-10-09
By David Benz (Mesa, AZ)
HTHGS is a lyrical, poetic chronicle of a recently paroled felon's return to small town America. Mr. Meno writes with a dark, terse voice which captures the reader's attention. This trip inside a off-kilter, violent and sometimes insane world left me wanting more. A pure and thoughtful exploration of guilt and love in a world with little room for either.

 "POW! now that's what i call a story!" 2001-11-15
By meghan lee (Chicago, IL USA)
This book is the type that I find few and far between. Without so much as blinking i was already through the first hundred pages. Since i have a very short attention span, you can see why this is a big deal. This book made me not want to sleep, eat, or do anything to deter me from its pages. When it was over I was left sated but wishing there were a thousand more pages to come. Luce Lemay's auspicious heart, dealt a hard luck hand, kept me filled with hope, wonder and awe. Even after a month since I finished it, I still can't help but wonder what old Luce is doing now.

 "A great surprise!" 2001-11-07
By Sam (Boston, MA USA)
This book was quite a surprise to me.
In college I became deeply infatuated with a
certain style of writing—that of such Southern
writers as William Faulkner, Flannery
O'Conner and especially Carson McCullers.
Joe Meno carries on this great Southern gothic
tradition in his new book How the Hula Girl
Sings.
Meno creates a claustrophobic
small town seething with sickness
and hate. He fills it with characters such as
an abusive father whose feet were eaten by
gangrene, a woman who kills small animals
and nails them to her walls in hand-crocheted
sweaters so that she can mourn them, and a
back stabbing ex-con who fashioned his fake
teeth out of gravel.
While this book is not a traditional
mystery I believe that it is well worth the read.
The story moves along at a good pace and is
extremely engaging. (The Librarian, 5 cats)

 "You should really read this book" 2001-11-01
By James (Los Angelas, CA)
What can I say? This is just an excellent read. Meno combines the quick, tight story movement of a pulp novel with a poet's view of the world. The language is simple but moving. Combine all that with some solid, fascinating, very human characters, finish it up with a powerhouse ending and you know what you got? One hell of a book.


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"A wonderful accomplishment. . . . The power is in the writing. Mr. Meno is a superb craftsman."-Hubert Selby Jr.

"The author moves the story along at a surprisingly fast and easy pace. The evil eyes of small-town America seem to peer from every page of Meno's claustrophobic noir, where the good and the bad are forced down the same violent paths."-Kirkus Reviews

"Joe Meno writes with the energy, honesty, and emotional impact of the best punk rock."-Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic, Chicago Sun-Times

"A likable winner that should bolster Meno's reputation." -Publishers Weekly

"Joe Meno writes with the energy, honesty, and emotional impact of the best punk rock." -Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times

"Fans of hard-boiled pulp fiction will particularly enjoy this novel." -Booklist

A young ex-con in a small Illinois town. A lonely giant with a haunted past. A beautiful girl with a troubled heart. Strange and darkly magical, How the Hula Girl Sings begins exactly where most pulp fiction usually ends, with the vivid episode of the terrible crime itself. Three years later, Luce Lemay, out on parole for the awful tragedy, does his best to finds hope: in a new job at the local Gas-N-Go; in his companion and fellow ex-con, Junior Breen, who spells out puzzling messages to the unquiet ghosts of his past; and finally, in the arms of the lovely but reckless Charlene. How the Hula Girl Sings is a suspenseful exploration of a country bright with the far-off stars of forgiveness and dark with the still-looming shadow of the death penalty.

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 "dissatisfaction" 2006-05-17
By adam (Annandale, NY)
I seem to be the lone voice on this, but I found this book to be a real disappointment. The dialogue was often too elaborate and misplaced, making the conversations unrealistic. Other parts, such as the sheriff "calling a doctor" and telling the characters to escape town, rather than take them to a hospital and try arresting the offenders, just got me plain mad because of the implausibility. However, the thing that really capped off my dislike for the book was Meno's constant repetition in description.



"No dainty gloom could make a body feel more lonesome than missing a tooth. It made me feel improper to smile. Losing that molar over a girl who wouldn't even spare me a kiss made me feel like the imperial king of all fools. Nothing else could make me feel so low."



After reading iterative writing like that, extended to 209 pages, I felt like taking a thesaurus and bashing the author in the head with it.



This book, every component of it, was a disgrace to the literary accomplishments Meno created in Hairstyles of the Damned.

 "Lyrical, Poetic Neo-Noir" 2005-10-09
By David Benz (Mesa, AZ)
HTHGS is a lyrical, poetic chronicle of a recently paroled felon's return to small town America. Mr. Meno writes with a dark, terse voice which captures the reader's attention. This trip inside a off-kilter, violent and sometimes insane world left me wanting more. A pure and thoughtful exploration of guilt and love in a world with little room for either.

 "POW! now that's what i call a story!" 2001-11-15
By meghan lee (Chicago, IL USA)
This book is the type that I find few and far between. Without so much as blinking i was already through the first hundred pages. Since i have a very short attention span, you can see why this is a big deal. This book made me not want to sleep, eat, or do anything to deter me from its pages. When it was over I was left sated but wishing there were a thousand more pages to come. Luce Lemay's auspicious heart, dealt a hard luck hand, kept me filled with hope, wonder and awe. Even after a month since I finished it, I still can't help but wonder what old Luce is doing now.

 "A great surprise!" 2001-11-07
By Sam (Boston, MA USA)
This book was quite a surprise to me.
In college I became deeply infatuated with a
certain style of writing—that of such Southern
writers as William Faulkner, Flannery
O'Conner and especially Carson McCullers.
Joe Meno carries on this great Southern gothic
tradition in his new book How the Hula Girl
Sings.
Meno creates a claustrophobic
small town seething with sickness
and hate. He fills it with characters such as
an abusive father whose feet were eaten by
gangrene, a woman who kills small animals
and nails them to her walls in hand-crocheted
sweaters so that she can mourn them, and a
back stabbing ex-con who fashioned his fake
teeth out of gravel.
While this book is not a traditional
mystery I believe that it is well worth the read.
The story moves along at a good pace and is
extremely engaging. (The Librarian, 5 cats)

 "You should really read this book" 2001-11-01
By James (Los Angelas, CA)
What can I say? This is just an excellent read. Meno combines the quick, tight story movement of a pulp novel with a poet's view of the world. The language is simple but moving. Combine all that with some solid, fascinating, very human characters, finish it up with a powerhouse ending and you know what you got? One hell of a book.


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