Notes on Books & Life
Just a couple quick notes for current and future Reading Buddies: First, there is now a Goodreads group and an email reminders list for Reading Buddies! Second, due to a couple of schedule changes on my end, I need to shuffle our July and August schedule a bit. I’ll post in more detail about the …
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Hello, reading buddies! Welcome to the wrap-up for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Just a note, as usual, to non-participants: if you haven’t read this one yet, you might not want to read any farther, since spoilers are fair game! I really loved this book. So much so that it’s a …
I read The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair on my Sony Reader, thanks to NetGalley. It’s out tomorrow, June 15, from Grand Central Publishing. About the Book: Rakhee Singh is a young woman when, as The Girl in the Garden opens, she leaves her fiancé and engagement ring behind and sets off to …
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The Great Lenore by JM Tohline found its way to me via Atticus Books. It’s out this Wednesday, June 15! About the Book: Instead of the usual summary, I thought I’d share the first few lines of The Great Lenore from the ARC I read: “When I met Lenore, she’d been dead for four days. …
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Before I give my usual spoiler warning, let me just say that if you haven’t read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, I’d suggest you find yourself a copy and join in! At halfway through, it’s wonderful and, I suspect, will be great to discuss. I’d expected it to take me a …
