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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared

Friday, March 4, 2016

Karl and Ray and Farmor loved this book by Swede Jonas Jonasson.  Swedish centenarian Allan celebrates his 100th by climbing out the window of his old folks’ home and going on an adventure, through which we learn of his Forest Gump-ian relationship to the great dictators of history.  Quirky and fun.

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The Nightingale

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

I have been trying to pinpoint what it is about Kristin Hannah’s writing that made this sort of boring to read.  I was reminded of how I feel about certain romance novels:  they meet the general requirements of the genre but in a sort of diligent way without any flair or passion.  Oddly, I keep […]

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When The Moon Is Low

Monday, January 18, 2016

Loved this fast-paced straightfoward fiction about an Afgahni woman, Feireba, who leaves war-torn Kabul with her 3 children after her husband is murdered by the Taliban.  I grieved with Feireba and her teenaged son Saleem who tell the story of their desperate journey through Turkey, into Greece, and on through Italy and France — the […]

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Brain on Fire

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

At 24, Susannah Cahalan is beset for serious and ever-worsening symptoms from hallucinations and migraines to paranoia and intense elation.  Diagnosis of severe seizures lands her in the hospital completely unable to function and without hope until one in a vast parade of doctors happens to ask her to draw a clock. After she painstakingly […]

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The Outsiders

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

This book was written in 1967.  I read it in the 80s.  Now Lucy and her friends in the 8th Grade Book Club are reading it in 2016 and LOVING IT.  Haven’t seen them this enthusiastic about a book yet.  Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Two-Bit, and Johnny’s story is, apparently, timeless.

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The Light of the World

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

I first read Elizabeth Alexander’s story as a personal essay in the New Yorker.  This memoir generously and lushly tells the entire story of her marriage to Ficre and the sudden loss of him at age 50.  I cried my way through this.  I could feel her poet’s heart in all these words.  Art and […]

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