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BOOKS WE LIKED: |
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris |
Nonfiction/
Humor |
Hilarious, over the top anecdotes of Sedaris' life. Too funny to describe. |
Frank & Shelley |
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Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane |
Fiction/
Suspense |
Partly about a murder, mostly about 3 characters, all dark. Excellently written. |
Frank & Shelley |
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant |
Fiction/
Quasi-Religious? |
Shelley says: beautiful novel about Dinah, a little-known character from the Old Testament. I finished this book feeling as if I were saying goodbye to a friend.
Frank says: ok novel but not enough happens. |
Shelley |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving |
Fiction |
A coming of age novel that follows 2 boys through childhood to early adulthood. Funny & dark, a truly great novel. |
Frank & Shelley |
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The World According to Garp
by John Irving |
Fiction |
This novel spans the life of T.S. Garp. Alternately funny and sad, and full of quirky, amazingly drawn characters. We love this book. |
Frank & Shelley |
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden |
Fiction |
A novel about a geisha in Japan in the '30s (written masterfully by a white guy from America in the '90s) that details the life of an up-and-coming geisha. A sort of coming of age novel, but executed in an original setting. Couldn't put it down. |
Frank & Shelley |
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver |
Fiction |
The story of a missionary family from the South living in the Congo, told from the points of view of 4 different characters. Her best book yet. |
Shelley |
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt |
Nonfiction/
Memoir |
This is truly one of those "triumph of the human spirit" novels. McCourt chronicles his childhood & adolescence in a poverty- and tragedy-stricken family in Ireland while making the reader somehow laugh and hope for the best. |
Frank & Shelley |
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold |
Fiction |
The story of a brutal murder and the survivors' contradictory and simultaneous desires to move on and find her killer, told from the point of view of the murdered girl herself. Pretty original. |
Shelley |
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IT
by Stephen King |
Fiction/
Horror |
Ok, so it's not considered a hallmark of literary sophistication to endorse a Stephen King book. Who cares? This is still one of the most intense books we've read, and we loved the characters. So there. :) |
Frank & Shelley |
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Shogun
by James Clavell |
Fiction |
Amazing book set in 17th-century Japan - and we recommend all other by this author as well. |
Frank & Shelley |
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