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Just finished James T. Farrell's Young Lonigan, the first of the famous Studs Lonigan trilogy. I enjoyed it very much, and found that Farrell was really a master at exposing the veins of longing and gentleness, hidden in the coarseness and hostility of immigrant life. I did think that like Mark Twain, be must be very politically incorrect nowadays. I will pick up the last two in the trilogy, but I decided on a change of pace.
The next read is Macho Camacho's Beat by Luis Rafael Sánchez, so from the Irish-American experience to the Puerto Rican one.
I finished Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler and I'm now reading The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine. She is a local writer and this book is #2 in a series of 11 (so far) vampire books. It's light reading and I'll work through all of them but I'll read something else between them. I have such a stack of books to read. That always makes me feel content and particularly as we edge into winter. We may have snow and sleet here on Monday and that's fine with me now that I no longer have to get out in it.
...I don't know what to read next. My dad had a small stroke and I need something I can concentrate on. I had planned to read Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger but it isn't a sequel to The Time Traveller's Wife, and I'm wondering if it is as engaging as the previous book. I need something that will grab my attention and not let my mind wander.
Sorry to hear about your Dad and hope he is recovering.
When my kids were little and I could only grab short times slots here and there I picked up a collection of Hemingway's short stories and it saved my sanity. He was a brilliant writer.
Over halfway through "Fear Nothing" by Dean Koontz. Lately I keep finding the books that only encompass one very long night instead of weeks, months and years like other books. Getting tired of this type. But still like Dean Koontz.
This isn't technically a "current read," but I just finished Water for Elephants and had to give it a nod. The writing was engaging and fast-paced, and the story/characters were truly engrossing - two thumbs up!
Now I'm debating which book to read next, since I have about 5-6 others loaded on my new Kindle. I started reading Where She Went by Gayle Forman, which is a Young Adult novel & sequel to If I Stay (which I recently read)... not sure it's capturing my attention, though, so I may start reading King's 11/22/63 instead.
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I finished it, I finished it! I finished New York by Edward Rutherfurd. While I will say that I loved the book, the last 30 or so pages were the weakest, at least for me, but maybe that's because that part of the tale was too new, still fresh in my memory.
Tonight I might start on Wallace Stegner's All the Little Live Things. Maybe. I'm not sure yet.
Because its Christmas time I went back to a book I read years ago--The Joyous Season by Patrick Dennis. I am happy to report it hasnt lost a thing over the years--still funny and good to read! The Joyous Season « the stacks my destination
I'm reading Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. It's a few years old - I had originally bought it for my husband but he wasn't interested in it, but I'm finding it fascinating. Originally, I thought, with reference to New York by Rutherford, that it would be of interest to those who enjoyed that book (which I haven't read), but I hadn't realised until Googling it now that New York is fiction - Mayflower is nonfiction.
Being set in your neck of the woods, Dandj, maybe you'd find it interesting?
I haven't finished it yet - I'm about halfway through. I highly recommend it for lovers of history, or for lovers of American history.
If you're enjoying Mayflower you might also like In the Heart of the Sea, also by Philbrick.
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