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OK, book and animal lovers--think about putting We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves on your TBR list. Near the top. I'm not much of a book reviewer, but this is what Alice Sebold said about it:
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A dark, cautionary tale hanging out, incognito style, in what at first seems a traditional family narrative. It is anything but. This novel is deliciously jaunty in tone and disturbing in material. Karen Joy Fowler tells the story of how one animal--the animal of man--can simultaneously destroy and expand our notion of what is possible.
Next up is Five Days at Memorial : Life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital by Sheri Fink.
Memorial Hospital is in New Orleans.
The "five days" take place during Katrina.
Fink, the author, won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the tragedy at Memorial.
I started this book last September and somehow I got waylaid by something else and didn't really get into it. I'm giving it another shot.
^I read that one a few months back, found it quite fascinating & engrossing (disaster intrigues me).
Looking up maps of elevation and layout of areas within/around New Orleans helped me comprehend the info. better, since I wasn't that familiar with the region.
After that, I read Douglas Brinkley's "Deluge" on the same topic.
Anyway, finished my last couple library books & picked up a couple more:
"The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin" by Dr. Robert Norman (2014)
"Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World" by Mark Miodownik (2013)
Just finished 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster and enjoyed it so much, I immediately went online and purchased the sequel.
Now on to The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett (saw part of the film adaptation on PBS the other night and was intrigued, and happy to see that it is in the public domain and free to download onto my Kindle).
I'm still enthralled with Andre Vltchek's "Point of No Return" and even though I still have 58 pages to finish I already want to shout out "EVERYONE: READ THIS BOOK!" but that's not why I stopped in.
I know some people prefer short stories and I just came across a book reading description in Seattle's "The Stranger" that was very complimentary of this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...terfly_Stories
Finished Fire Season by David Weber and Jane Lindskold last night.
Second book in the Star Kingdom series.
Now to find #3 Treecat Wars
If it's Weber of the Harrington/Manticore series (with treecats, I assume so) - he's a favorite. Harrington is a pleasure to watch develop as a sailor & as a person.
I browsed through ebay last weekend and bought two books for my to read pile :
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday and a German book with stories about an Italian family. The titles sounded funny so I thought I could read them sometime. Hopefully sometime soon.
Now I'm 16% deep into "The Fiery Cross" by Diana Gabaldon. I don't have any illusions I'll make it through the next three books before the series starts
Finished the cozy mystery ~Pies and Prejudice (A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery) by Ellery Adams, which was pretty cute but just ok,because there was far too much focus and detail on the food.
I sometimes read Christian fiction to avoid the profanity,sex,and gruesome gore in much of the secular fiction,but I can't stand religious proselytizing either,so hope there isn't much in this.
I finished The Giver and my daughter and I enjoyed our little "mini book club". What a powerful book! I'm not sure how I feel about the ending and am still processing some of the subtleties, but I am looking forward to the next one (daughter has it right now).
I did watch a preview trailer for the movie, and as expected, was disappointed. The kids are too old and the community looked much larger and more sophisticated than it did in my imagination.
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