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Re Bruce Feller, I am not familiar with the books you mentioned, K of A, BUT I have read Walking the Bible by him and thought it was really great. I thought I read something else by him and totally enjoyed it. He is Jewish, from Savannah Ga.]I just looked and man oh man he has written quite a few books. Thanks for the reminder.
Wow I am so glad this forum is so happening lately!
Re Bruce Feller, I am not familiar with the books you mentioned, K of A, BUT I have read Walking the Bible by him and thought it was really great. I thought I read something else by him and totally enjoyed it. He is Jewish, from Savannah Ga.]I just looked and man oh man he has written quite a few books. Thanks for the reminder.
You are so welcome! I really love his writing style and his gently humorous approach to things. I love how he is respectful of other cultures while also showing his surprise and even discomfort at some of the customs.
You are so welcome! I really love his writing style and his gently humorous approach to things. I love how he is respectful of other cultures while also showing his surprise and even discomfort at some of the customs.
You have intrigued me enough to want to try him
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ok so I finished Before I Go To Sleep last night. Definitely not a book I would have picked but it was for book club. To my surprise, it was really quite good and definitely engrossing. Yes, it's about a woman with amnesia but it was so well written and just drew me in...... I loved the first maybe 85% and then...
And then, as I often comment, the ending part seemed to me, to be kind of disjointed. It had some twists, and some were a bit hard to follow. So overall I still thought the book was very good, but had the ending been on par with the rest of it - omg would have been more than amazing! Truthfully though I wonder if it's partly me because I often find endings are the disappointing part. Either they are trying to tie things up and finish, or maybe I am ?
I am starting Another Brooklyn, mentioned here. I was able to get it from the library on kindle, and it is 170 ish pages.
ok so I finished Before I Go To Sleep last night. Definitely not a book I would have picked but it was for book club. To my surprise, it was really quite good and definitely engrossing. Yes, it's about a woman with amnesia but it was so well written and just drew me in...... I loved the first maybe 85% and then...
And then, as I often comment, the ending part seemed to me, to be kind of disjointed. It had some twists, and some were a bit hard to follow. So overall I still thought the book was very good, but had the ending been on par with the rest of it - omg would have been more than amazing! Truthfully though I wonder if it's partly me because I often find endings are the disappointing part. Either they are trying to tie things up and finish, or maybe I am ?
I am starting Another Brooklyn, mentioned here. I was able to get it from the library on kindle, and it is 170 ish pages.
Mayvenne,
I just finished the last book, This Is Not Over, and found the same thing. The ending was kind of weird and a little weak.
I wonder if authors have a great idea for a book and it's all good when they're fleshing out that idea and the plot, but never think about how it's going to end so they just throw the ending together. lol I wonder what would happen if you started with the end in mind and then worked the rest of the book around that?
I adore Bill Bryson. I haven't read this one though! Hmmmm...
His "Notes From a Small Planet" turned me onto him. I was standing in Barnes and Noble, thumbing through it and literally laughing out loud, so I figured I should probably buy this book, which I did. Now I have many of his books!
Not quite as funny but gently witty and very insightful are the books by Bruce Feiler. "Learning To Bow," "Under the Big Top," "Looking for Class," and "Dreaming Out Loud" are my favorites by him. I love how he immerses himself into a particular culture and then gently describes it - not "exposes" it, because he is far too kind for that, and I think it's his inherent kindness that allows him that access into other cultures and subcultures anyway. But he is very intuitive and I really enjoy his gently humorous writing style.
In the above books, in order, Feiler: 1) Teaches English in a rather isolated Japanese village for a couple of years, 2) joins a traveling circus for a couple of years, 3) attends college at a prestigious British college, and 4) "dives deep" into the country music scene in Nashville. Fascinating! Well, to me, anyway. But I'm a weirdo.
We're all weirdos in our own way. The trick is knowing how much weird to let out and put on view, without scaring others away.
Okay, nobody steal that, that sounds like something I'd like to put in a book someday. More probably my blog.
Yaya I cannot rep you but I so appreciate your saying the same thing about the ending. ( I find that so often).
This book in particular though, really irritated me with how invested in it I was, and then I wasn't sure what I had read.
Given the storyline is puzzling and curious and twisted enough, but I really wish it was more deliberate.
Oh well...... glad you agreed!
I just started reading Vicksburg by Donald L. Miller. It’s the story of Grant’s campaign to capture the Mississippi River city during the Civil War. I’m not a Civil War buff, but just love reading about Grant.
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