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I've been trying to settle down with a book since noon and I started two and put them down. About half the books I have on the kindle were purchased from "kindle deals of the day." It's hard for me to turn down a 1.99 book. I usually find one to buy.
So I have settled down with Brain on Fire:My Month of Madness by Susanna Cahalan.
I've been trying to settle down with a book since noon and I started two and put them down. About half the books I have on the kindle were purchased from "kindle deals of the day." It's hard for me to turn down a 1.99 book. I usually find one to buy.
So I have settled down with Brain on Fire:My Month of Madness by Susanna Cahalan.
I heard an NPR interview with this young author. What a terrifying time for her and her family. I'll be interested to hear what you think of the book.
Read the initial Wool, when it was a short story, before it was turned into a novel. Pretty definitive end, hard to see how that could be made into a novel....
I don't know if he revised it between the time you read it as a short story and I read it as Part 1 of Wool, a novel, but I know I thought at the end of Part 1 that it worked as a short story. I was a little concerned as to how he was going to develop it, as I was very impressed by the writing and didn't see where he was going to go, but imo, having read (on the hated ipad) all 7 parts, it totally succeeds as a novel. He manages to insert beautifully crafted phrases that make you go, uh huh, all the way through the novel. I hope you have a chance to read it and I'd be totally curious as to what you think of it compared to what you originally read and what he has developed it into.
I read, somewhere or the other, that it is being made into a movie, not that I watch movies, but I think the novel in the form released by the publisher will be very successful.
I heard an NPR interview with this young author. What a terrifying time for her and her family. I'll be interested to hear what you think of the book.
I finished it this morning, Kate. It's a good book. I was afraid I wouldn't stay with it but I did because I really like the author. She is a very brave young woman. Her entire family is brave.
It's an outrageous condition she suffered from. No one could diagnose it until one very special doctor was able to do so. It's rare. It's horrible and it is hard to diagnose.
It book is written in conversational form and she is a journalist but that does not naturally segue into a a great author. But in this case, it did. It's easy reading with a lot of medical jargon which she explains well enough that I understood it (and nearly shook from the horror of it).
I think you would find it fascinating, Kate.
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susanna Cahalan
well i will tell you the book "Mrs Lincolns dressmaker " was dull at best could not get through it at all . Hope I find something better to read soon .
That's disappointing to hear. Someone was just telling me the other day how good that book was. They couldn't put it down. Now I don't know what to think! LOL
I thought it was an okay read, too cutesy for me, although most people seem to love it. Sort of a sad story but I had a hard time accepting the dialogue amongst the teenagers---I could never find it believable, so it started to take away from the story for me.
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I've not been able to commit to a book. I start one and then bail on it a few pages in. They're good books -- I know they are -- but my head's not in it. I've given up on half a dozen books this way already. Sigh...
I came across a book that caught my eye at my aunt's house last month. I think that I may have read it when it first came out in 1997 but, if so, I don't remember anything except that the title sounds familiar. It's called The Light of Falling Stars by J. Robert Lennon. If that doesn't work for me, I'll try The Novel by James Michener. If that doesn't work for me, I'll try another that I snatched from her house -- Not As a Stranger by Morton Thompson. And if THAT doesn't work or me, then I need to give in to the pressure and back off reading for a bit.
I started reading Cry. the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. It's an old book about South Africa. I'm surprised I was not required to read it in high school.
I started reading Cry. the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. It's an old book about South Africa. I'm surprised I was not required to read it in high school.
TBH, I'm surprised too! That was required reading when I was in high school, but I guess it wasn't in every school. Great book, if I remember correctly (it's been a long time since HS ).
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