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24. Love your bookshelf, esp. that kitten section! Finished Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 06:11 PM
Apr 2021

and highly recommend it if you're looking for something to lift your spirits. It is a romp thru old Hollywood with a couple offbeat characters. I liked it very much.

Next on my list:

Andrew J. Graff: Raft of Stars

“A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.” —Richard Russo

An instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too late?

It’s the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer “Fish” Branson and Dale “Bread” Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don’t talk about.

One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them.

Four adults track them into the forest, each one on a journey of his or her own. Fish’s mother Miranda, a wise woman full of fierce faith; his granddad, Teddy, who knows the woods like the back of his hand; Tiffany, a purple-haired gas station attendant and poet looking for connection; and Sheriff Cal, who’s having doubts about a life in law enforcement.

The adults track the boys toward the novel’s heart-pounding climax on the edge of the gorge and a conclusion that beautifully makes manifest the grace these characters find in the wilderness and one another. This timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure runs like the river itself amid the vividly rendered landscape of the Upper Midwest.


Many thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. I hope we will get back to some kind of "normalcy" before the end of summer.

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Just finished "The Honjin Murders" by Seishi Yokomizo and getting ready to start "2034," by Elliot dameatball Apr 2021 #1
Hiya, hermetic Apr 2021 #2
I am reading murielm99 Apr 2021 #3
Did you read hermetic Apr 2021 #7
No, I have not read that one. murielm99 Apr 2021 #9
I have never heard of these blue people. murielm99 Apr 2021 #10
Yeah, me either hermetic Apr 2021 #15
Just checked them both out!I just had go look up the blue people SheltieLover Apr 2021 #21
There have been some serious plagiarism charges murielm99 Apr 2021 #28
That is certainly interesting hermetic Apr 2021 #29
Another book about them? MuseRider Apr 2021 #14
Awesome! SheltieLover Apr 2021 #19
Just finished Unlucky by DeLeon - Great read SheltieLover Apr 2021 #4
Interesting super power hermetic Apr 2021 #17
Lol SheltieLover Apr 2021 #20
I just got the ebook of Turn a Blind Eye, Staph Apr 2021 #5
I guess it is.... hermetic Apr 2021 #11
For my bedtime cozy, I am reading Maggie Sefton's, Polly Hennessey Apr 2021 #6
That sounds really good hermetic Apr 2021 #12
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley William and First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami Ohiya Apr 2021 #8
Excellent hermetic Apr 2021 #13
Just finished "The Boy who Fell" by Jo Spain The King of Prussia Apr 2021 #16
That's good news hermetic Apr 2021 #18
Well, I just don't seem to be reading real books lately-I blame the pandemic! TexLaProgressive Apr 2021 #22
Howdy, TexLa hermetic Apr 2021 #23
Last week I listened to a Mercedes Lackey book TexLaProgressive Apr 2021 #25
Sorry I missed ya hermetic Apr 2021 #26
I'll give him a read one day. TexLaProgressive Apr 2021 #27
Love your bookshelf, esp. that kitten section! Finished Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson japple Apr 2021 #24
Just finished To Catch a Thief PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2021 #30
The Preston/Child series is a hoot! PennyC Apr 2021 #31
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