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Bosco
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
“I don’t like classical music and this book is forcing me to reconsider my opinion. So it’s good. It’s not something I’d find compelling, but I do. I’m reading this for the This Book Could Be Your Life book club meeting on July 17th.”
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Merrilee
Heartstone by C. J. Sansome
“This is the fifth book in this series. It’s almost like Sansome came up with this the way they came up with the Ninja Turtles: let’s take four things that don’t go together and make them go together. In this case, it’s a hunchback warrior during the reign of Henry VIII, who is one of those people who just can’t let anything go. No matter how many times the Queen is mad at him and his buddies tell him to just let it go, he can’t do it! There’s murders and bodies popping up in bogs. In this one you meet Princess Elizabeth as a little girl and I’m hoping Sansome carries her story out in the next books. It’s really interesting, especially if you’re into history.”
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Salvador
The Passage by Justin Cronin
“I LOVE it! It is just so creative and brilliant. It’s so clever how he’s building this story of vampire apocalypse and you don’t even know that he’s doing it.”
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Nolan
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
“A loss of innocence story for crazy backwoods rural people, so a lot of crazy backwoods rural stuff happens. It comes out in July.”
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Clint
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
“I’ve been on a real Faulkner kick lately, and although I think he never wrote a bad book in his career, this is turing out to be one of my favorites. It tells the story of the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen and his desire to become a powerful patriarch in Mississippi. It’s told from various points of view, including Quention Compson of The Sound and the Fury. Qutie possibly one of the first postmodern works of fiction produced.”
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