Reading this I was thinking "It's no longer true that since Steve went walking alongside that road in Maine and got smoked by a truck that he can't write a decent book" because it took me right back to the good old days of THE STAND; a classic end-of-the-world-good-vs.-evil long story except in this book people have cell phones.
A great book about two sisters who leave Shanghai in 1937 and come to Los Angeles in arranged marriages-- begins with a POW! WHAM! ZAP! but ends with what should have been a page that says TO BE CONTINUED......
THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY By Heidi Durrow
I absolutely loved PRECIOUS and I thought this book would be somewhat similar: girl succeeds despite all adversity but sadly she does not so it was like PRECIOUS except it had absolutely none of the uplifting stuff and for gosh sakes I hope that's the last book I read for awhile in which everybody I love dies. (You're Welcome.)
I would have read more, but the Stephen King novel weighed 50 lbs. itself.
What are you reading?
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WV: reeno
A suburb of Reno that is even crappier. If that's possible.
I got Under the Dome for my birthday and if I could lift it up I might read it.
I like Kregs WV. We passed through Reno three weeks ago and it looked like a ghost town. It was like there was a post apocalypse. The place is all but boarded up.
Steven King book is on my list, but it is a bit big and I have a list a mile long just sitting waiting to be read. Right now reading Almost Home by Pam Jenoff.
I'm reading Jane Slayer. I just read Jane Eyre a month or so ago, so I thought this was fitting. I love that she is a vampire slayer and I'm very interested to see how Mr. Rochester fits into all this.
I just finished the Magicians by Lev Grossman. It is a cross between Harry Potter and the Narnia Chronicles but with all of the happiness omitted. I wanted to slap the dysfunctional characters and tell them to grow up and get a life.
The Help is the best book I've read since Kiterunner.
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