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LFM and Upthere, you are so funny. Und is definitely the perfect name to go with Ove, well that or Betwee. However neither of them looked like an Ove so their names are.........Toby and Simba. They are stinkers but cute as all get out which is a good thing as cuteness actually saved their lives! Last evening they knocked over a very expensive lamp and their cuteness was a lifesaver. Thank goodness only the table was gouged and the lamp survived.
I can relate to that scenario. I have had Wool sitting on my Kindle forever but I keep going onto something else. I did see that there were other Nina books so when I need something when my brain is too drained to choose I have a backup.
I like the names Toby and Simba!
I read Wool and enjoyed it but never moved on to any of the others. Funny how we are like that. I was just looking at all the books on my bookshelves and my Kindle and thinking I'll never read them all unless I quit my job and read a book a day or quit adding to them (ROFL!!!!!!).
I think it sounds fabulous in that Olive Kitteridge way.
Yup---should be a nice way to start the new year. I put it on my spreadsheet of TBR---at 5115! The library doesn't even acknowledge that they will be getting it in 4 months from now and my holds queue is restricted (!) because I have too many books on it (just 50!).
Could not finish Afterbirth. Whiny, shrill, angry. Yeah, a C-section is no fun, but enough complaining about it. And I understand that not every woman immediately (and maybe even eventually) loves motherhood, but it seemed like this woman was never going to make her peace with it.
Have started Bennington Girls Are easy. It's about a number of young recent graduates from Bennington making their way into the world. Can't tell if I'll like it yet. Bennington intrigues me. I didn't have the money or the guts to go there, but it did seem like a special place.
I've finished reading "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" by Fredrik Backman, and gave it five stars. It truly WAS amazing. Not in the "Ove" way, but in a completely different way.
I wasn't enthralled with the fairy tales part, but it could not have been told any other way. It had sad undertones (for me), instead of the comic undertones that "Ove" held. Near the end, I cried.
Dawn alert: there IS a dog and there is a sad ending there, It did leave on an optimistic tone and I am actually hoping for more with these characters. I'd love to learn what Elsa and Harry get up to when Harry is old enough to start correcting Elsa's grammar.
I think it sounds fabulous in that Olive Kitteridge way.
That's exciting news! Wish my library had it on the pre-order list (they don't) because by the time I think about it again I'll probably end up as #296 out of 300 holds. Oh well, I'll get it eventually.
I just finished The Turner House by Angela Flourney, about 13 siblings in a black family in Detroit, and their attachment to their family home (I keep reading books about houses.) It was okay but not exactly riveting. T.C. Boyle gave it a thumbs-up and who am I to argue with him?
J M Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians". Fully deserves all the honors and plaudits. A dense read -- short, but not quick.
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