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I found Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries at the library & it's been interesting to browse through.
Also re-reading Still Alice for my book club. It is about a 50 yr old woman, who is a proffessor in a highly academic family, getting early-onset alzheimers. Very interesting. My other book club did it about 2 yrs ago & we all had a lot to say.
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Also re-reading Still Alice for my book club. It is about a 50 yr old woman, who is a proffessor in a highly academic family, getting early-onset alzheimers. Very interesting. My other book club did it about 2 yrs ago & we all had a lot to say.
My gosh, I loved Still Alice. It haunts me. I should re-read it, too.
I found Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries at the library & it's been interesting to browse through.
Also re-reading Still Alice for my book club. It is about a 50 yr old woman, who is a proffessor in a highly academic family, getting early-onset alzheimers. Very interesting. My other book club did it about 2 yrs ago & we all had a lot to say.
Still Alice is one of my favorites. I plan to reread it, too.
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I'm reading "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
Picked it up at a sale, thought I'd read it, it's about animals who live their lives like humans. Ok. the book is probably for the age group 10 & up. But the cover looked cute, so thought it would be a cute book to read.
I was cheating by reading Michael Savage's new book, the fiction thriller one on the book shelf but didn't buy it. I found it surprisingly readable. Maybe not great but not bad. The characters and plot didn't particularly reach out to me, though. I just saw it as kind of old hat, middle east terrorist bomb plot, cover up by the government. It was interesting though seeing himself being coalesced into the main character. His own views and experiences in the media at least.
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I would like to read that miss peregrines home book . currently im reading the outlander by gil adamson .
I stopped reading it. I got to the part where the main character went back in time, not even half way through the book. I don't *do* fantasy well, so I was done at that point. Oh well.
Just finished "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons, great book, really enjoyed it. The only downside is that it is really the first book of a series, so the "ending" wasn't an ending, but a cliffhanger, and the story is continued in "The Fall of Hyperion," which I just finished downloading and can't wait to start.
Just started reading The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. It's a nonfiction book about the great migration of African Americans who fled from the south to northern cities in the 20th century in search of a better life.
I am reading the weirdest book I have ever read - Flashback by Dan Simmons. I don't know what to say about this book - I have read Dan Simmons' books before and he is a pretty good writer. What I didn't know was that his protests regarding this book on his website notwithstanding, he is totally off his rocker, and as cuckoo as a cuckoo clock, and I would hate to be his head.
What was he on when he was writing this book?
He has crammed into this dystopian tale, every single paranoid right-wing thought anyone in America has ever had regarding Mexicans, the Chinese, Japanese and the Muslims. In this book they are all taking over the US.
I don't think anyone can write such loony scenarios without a single character to moderate and present a different point of view, without those beliefs being part of the writer himself.
So my problem with this book as fiction is that I'm detached from it because it is so bizarre and he's got all the favourite enemies of the right-wing. I can't suspend my disbelief.
On the other hand his characters are well-drawn - but every single one of his characters shares the same POV.
So if you are paranoid and are sure everyone is out to get you and that Obama is a Muslim, you will love this book. If not, while it drags in the middle, and then rushes to a conclusion as Simmons tries to wrap up all his loose ends, if you want to read something for the pure craziness of it all, then I recommend this book.
I have never read such a crazy book in my life. I have a headache.
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What was he on when he was writing this book?
