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Just purchased The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lackes and am into it for about 30 pages now. So far it seems very sad, so I don't want to waste time reading this book if it's a downer.
Anyone read it and found it worthwhile? I usually read books that are happy uplifting, good endings. Thanks for your comments
I really enjoyed the book, but it's not the happiest. It's very, very interesting, definitely sad, but also left me hopeful.
Just purchased The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lackes and am into it for about 30 pages now. So far it seems very sad, so I don't want to waste time reading this book if it's a downer.
Anyone read it and found it worthwhile? I usually read books that are happy uplifting, good endings. Thanks for your comments
I also thought it was too long. Very interesting in the beginning and dragged at the end.
I got some more books the other day, so adding them on to my list.
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick
Past Secrets by Cathy Kelly
The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
The Hill Road by Patrick O'Keefe
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Dream Catcher by Margaret A. Salinger
After This by Alice McDermott
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And heeere we go:
• The Secrets of Mary Bowser
• 800 Years of Women's Letters
• Doc
• The Princess Bride -- I've seen the movie a number of times, but I want to read the book
• Rick Bragg books -- All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man, The Prince of Frogtown -- since a bunch of you were saying that they're so good
• Monday Mornings (Sanjay Gupta)
• The Lifeboat (Charlotte Rogan)
• The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. (Nichole Bernier)
• The Chaperone (by Laura Moriarty)
• The Undertow (Jo Baker)
Between Two Rivers (Nicolas Rinaldi)
How to Read the Air
And a half a dozen other goodies that are wafting around on my Kindle
Just finishing Tom Robbins "Skinny Legs and all". . . .next ones on the stack are: Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Book of Ruth,(Jane Hamilton) and "Sister Wives", Kody Brown family.
• The Secrets of Mary Bowser
• 800 Years of Women's Letters
• Doc
• The Princess Bride -- I've seen the movie a number of times, but I want to read the book
• Rick Bragg books -- All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man, The Prince of Frogtown -- since a bunch of you were saying that they're so good
• Monday Mornings (Sanjay Gupta)
• The Lifeboat (Charlotte Rogan)
• The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. (Nichole Bernier)
• The Chaperone (by Laura Moriarty)
• The Undertow (Jo Baker)
Between Two Rivers (Nicolas Rinaldi)
How to Read the Air
And a half a dozen other goodies that are wafting around on my Kindle
Those are the 3 Rick Bragg books I have! I'm still reading All Over but the Shoutin'. He's really good.
I've still stopped doing a separate list (something besides my amazon wish list, which is my to-read list, and my list on goodreads), but I've recently bought (used, through amazon, of course!):
A Ticket to the Circus by Norris Church Mailer (Norman's last wife) Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant (thanks to your suggestion, Dawn, and the other readers who loved the book because of your recommendation), and The Stories of John Cheever by who else, John Cheever
Sadly, nothing. Sometimes I think I've read all the good books. It is so depressing to finish a book, and then have to go to the library and search and search for something else good too read. I kiss way too many literary toads.
Yet, I keep surprising myself by stumbling onto something that is worth reading fairly regularly.
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