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In reply to the discussion: What are you reading this week of December 10, 2017? [View all]japple
(10,459 posts)22. Thanks for the thread, hermetic. I finished Bill McKibben's
Radio Free Vermont--A Fable of Resistance and highly recommend it, esp. to those who need a bit of laughter and fun in these dark political times. NY Times gave it a nice review: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/books/review-radio-free-vermont-bill-mckibben.html
Though I am not usually drawn to mysteries, I downloaded Ivy Pochoda's book, Visitation Street after reading a review of her latest book, Wonder Valley which I will download once it hits my library's e-book collection. I must say that she is an amazing writer and Visitation Street sucked me in right away.
A blurb from amazon:
Though I am not usually drawn to mysteries, I downloaded Ivy Pochoda's book, Visitation Street after reading a review of her latest book, Wonder Valley which I will download once it hits my library's e-book collection. I must say that she is an amazing writer and Visitation Street sucked me in right away.
A blurb from amazon:
Chosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.
It’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.
And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds.
This shocking event will echo through the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop will be the place to share neighborhood news and troll for information about June’s disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father’s murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe.
Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she buries deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Julliard School dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.
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A while back I started Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments" And then I fell into Connelly.
TexasProgresive
Dec 2017
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