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Originally Posted by Ketabcha
I finished Snow in August by Pete Hamill.
It's a wonderful book set in Brooklyn of the 40s (Hamill's stomping grounds). Basically it's a coming of age story about an eleven year old boy. I really enjoyed it until the last few pages. The ending nearly spoiled the book for me.
Hamill is a truly fine writer. I plan to read more of his work.
Oh no! But it's on my "to get" list. Should I skip it? Will I be majorly upset by those last few pages?
Oh no! But it's on my "to get" list. Should I skip it? Will I be majorly upset by those last few pages?
No, don't skip it, Dawn. It's a very good book and you will like it, I'm almost positive. It's not quite a memoir but it's close enough and I know you like memoirs.
I don't think the ending will ruin the book for you. It simply left me with some questions and I don't like that. I want the package to be neatly wrapped and spoon fed to me.
Speaking of memoirs, I'm starting The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik. It's about an Iranian and Iranian-American family. What drew me to it was the fact that one reviewer writes that this is a book fans of Jeanette Walls would enjoy. I'll report back on it.
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Originally Posted by Ketabcha
No, don't skip it, Dawn. It's a very good book and you will like it, I'm almost positive. It's not quite a memoir but it's close enough and I know you like memoirs.
I don't think the ending will ruin the book for you. It simply left me with some questions and I don't like that. I want the package to be neatly wrapped and spoon fed to me.
Speaking of memoirs, I'm starting The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik. It's about an Iranian and Iranian-American family. What drew me to it was the fact that one reviewer writes that this is a book fans of Jeanette Walls would enjoy. I'll report back on it.
OK, thanks! I'll keep it on my list, even though I, too, like my endings neatly wrapped and spoon-fed!
And now I have to look into that memoir that you just mentioned. The "to get" list is getting longer and longer by the day, and I still have 500 pages of Forever to read. And the rest of my "to read" pile. Sigh... I need to retire. Work totally gets in the way of my reading life.
It's a wonderful book set in Brooklyn of the 40s (Hamill's stomping grounds). Basically it's a coming of age story about an eleven year old boy. I really enjoyed it until the last few pages. The ending nearly spoiled the book for me.
Hamill is a truly fine writer. I plan to read more of his work.
I still have News as a Verb to read and Loving Women. I bought them used a while ago. I know there's a few more paperbacks. For some reason I never finished North River. It's not that it wasn't good. Something must have distracted me. I think Hamill is very under appreciated as a writer. I've always been an avid newspaper reader, and Pete wrote a column for the New York Daily News. I wonder if that's the secret. Pete is not a pompous writer. His writing is so concise, and he is not self-indulgent like some of the newer authors. I like to use a dictionary, but some of them write like they're looking up words to stump you. LOL.
I am currently about 2/3 of the way through the 1st book of the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. And then there are 5 more in that serirs, and another 28 in my to read box & yet another 8 in my maybe I'll read, maybe I won't box. And let's not even talk about the 15 or so I've got on my nook to read. And then there are 2 coming out May 3rd that I want & I am thinking of going back to school & working 2 jobs..........I may have to look into books on cd :\
I finally came to read The Corrections. As a non-native speaker reading it directly in English, I thought the English used by Franzen was not the easiest to stomach. But despite his rather dense writing style, I found myself wanting to read on and dig deeper into the dysfunctional Lambert-family existence.
I just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain--a wonderful book.
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