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I have The Burgess Boys on the kindle. I plan to read it after I finish a really good book that was a kindle special. Jan Strnad's The Summer We Lost Alice. I'm having a hard time putting this book down. It's exceptional. Gotta' flash to one of the many things I like about Stephen King's books. He is one year younger than I am and he always mentions songs from our early years in his books. He really connects with me that way. Well, Strnad does the same thing for me except it is not songs. It's sayings that were popular when I was a kid and similar life experiences of the characters that are often a lot like mine. I highly recommend this book. The writing is great.
Sharp Objects is very depressing but it really is a good read.
Update on The Summer We Lost April:
Half way through the book it began to get mucho weird. Evil spirits and reincarnation abounded. But, I still really enjoyed the book. I finished it last night. The sea change happened suddenly and it might turn off some readers.
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I'm almost half way through Sharp Objects by Gillian Fynn. At the beginning, I didn't think that I'd enjoy it -- I'm not a fan of mystery -- but that changed quick enough. I think the characters are interesting, as is the story.
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Hahahaha!!!!!!! Now I'm reading the book that I wrote! It just got (self)-published. Yes, of course I've read it before -- I wrote it! -- but it's fun to see it on Amazon. So much fun!!!!
I gave up on Dandelion Wine for now. Beautiful writing but not moving quickly enough for me.
Started Still Alice by Lisa Genova, about a woman diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. It's very hard for me to read because of all the disabilities I fear, this is the one I fear the most. OTOH, it's interesting because my mother is 88 and in the last stages of dementia and it's a glimpse into some of what she must have gone through over the past 10 years or so.
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Added to my wish list for hopefully tomorrow!
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^^^^ That's going on my list right now!
Please don't be overly excited about it. It's a rather silly book that's written in a very elementary form. There are no beautiful prose or lovely turns of phrases. It's just good for a giggle, especially if you have a pup.
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (she of the interesting and quirky non-fiction books with one-word titles: Bonk, Stiff, Spook).
Re-reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation, which is good but perhaps not as stunning as it was when I first read it as an 11-year-old in 1970.
By the spouse's recommendation, on the list is Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, which I doubt I am going to like but will definitely learn something from and American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard, which I expect to like AND learn something from, as I have enjoyed other books with this concept like Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer and The Peopling of British North America by Bernard Bailyn.
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Now I am reading Little Britches Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody.
