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Fool's Hill: A Kid's Life in an Oregon Coastal Town

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John Quick's book is one of my favorite books, ever. About a young, precocious, inquisitive boy trying to make sense of the illogical world of adults, and the joy of growing up in a small coastal town. Each chapter reads like it's own story. The author's reflections and remembrances are laugh-out-loud funny, a few are sad, some have elements of both. In my house the book stays out and gets picked up often because you can open it in the middle and read a chapter, or read the whole book (it's hard to stop once you start). And it's just as good the second or third time as the first. I'm taking it to my Mom's for Christmas so we can read the wonderful Christmas chapter out loud.

Highly recommended!

Reading John Quick is true pleasure. He is a natural storyteller. He puts me in mind of men of my grandfathers generation. Laughing, cursing and loving their life and memories they spoke from the center of their beings and and knew they had drawn us closer. It is a delight to find John Quick can both tell a story and share it with us through his gifted writing.

This is a great book about a boy's life in the Oregon coast town of Port Orford in the '30s and '40s. We had a weekend house in this town for about 10 years, so it was fun to recognize some of the places mentioned. But it's also a good view of a boy's life in those times even if you've never been to the Oregon coast.