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There's a lot to me. I'm smart, overly ambitious, sorta lazy. I think the Powerthirst commercials are the funniest things ever invented, and I'm so sorry for you if you don't know what I'm talking about. My life plans revolve around writing the Great American Novel, reforming the government, teaching highschool, developing a business model that makes me independently wealthy, having a crazy amount… Read moreThere's a lot to me. I'm smart, overly ambitious, sorta lazy. I think the Powerthirst commercials are the funniest things ever invented, and I'm so sorry for you if you don't know what I'm talking about. My life plans revolve around writing the Great American Novel, reforming the government, teaching highschool, developing a business model that makes me independently wealthy, having a crazy amount of kids (tho really, one baby is too many...), while living in the middle of nowhere on a mountain so I can live in peace and sunbathe naked without offending anyone.
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Sara Paretsky wrote a solid book, in the sense that I was engaged the entire time. I was able to love or hate her characters as the plot called for it, and was pleasantly surprized by some plot twists. I also enjoyed how Paretsky tackles the issue of fanatical belief, without taking the atheistic view on religion.
That being said, the plot was a little like a swerving car: it kept moving into other stories because they touched the main plot. While some of this is necessary to explain connections, some stories were embellished too far and then left, others not far enough. This didn't kill the momentum of the story for me, but it did leave me with a "Well what about...?"… Read more
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I looked at the cover of this book, read "James Frey" and went a little crazy trying to remember where I heard it from. It wasn't until I got home I realized it was the same author who's memoir, A Million Little Pieces made such a storm over facts and nonfacts. I decided a novel would be safe to read, and read I did.
I read Bright Shiny Morning (P.S.) more or less nonstop for the next three days. I had a hard time putting it down, once I got past the initial creative formatting. Dialogue was a little hard to follow at… Read more
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I couldn't put this book down. Even as it made me sick and afraid to keep reading, I couldn't put it down.
After watching the movie, I read " Running with Scissors: A Memoir." Having enjoyed it, I also read " Dry: A Memoir." Both of those dealt with situations and themes so outside my experience (spending my teenage years surrounded by a whirlwind of mental illness and grappling with rock bottom of alocholism, respectively) I was able to enjoy them as stories, without feeling any particular connection.
"A Wolf at… Read more
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