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hermetic

(8,687 posts) Sun Aug 2, 2015, 06:28 PM Aug 2015

What are you reading the week of Sunday, August 2, 2015? [View all]

Yikes, August already.

Last night I finished The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. While I've been slowly drifting through it, the last 80 some pages were impossible for me to put down. I love the little environmental statements that pop up, considering this was written in '93. The party, oh yeah. I've had Screech; it's just a 40 proof rum. I only tried one shot. Could totally see what happened there, though, as true to life. All those people became near and dear to me, in spite of their little quirks. And then the ending.

SPOILER ALERT!!

How sweet and touching. I shed a few tears. I really liked this book and will read it again some day.

So, what are you reading?

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What are you reading the week of Sunday, August 2, 2015? [View all] hermetic Aug 2015 OP

Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, hermetic. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #1

Oops, forgot my needle hermetic Aug 2015 #2

I read that when it came out pscot Aug 2015 #3

"The Frozen Dead," Bernard Minier shenmue Aug 2015 #4

I ordered a used copy of The Shipping News. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #5

I guess it is just me. Curmudgeoness Aug 2015 #6

You know, hermetic Aug 2015 #14

Collected Poems of W H Auden ananda Aug 2015 #7

I just finished Traitor's Purse ... ananda Aug 2015 #8

Thanks for your input hermetic Aug 2015 #13

Almost finished with Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell, then will get japple Aug 2015 #9

Killer Diller hermetic Aug 2015 #12

Clyde Edgerton is pretty funny. This is a sequel to Walking Across Egypt japple Aug 2015 #15

After I said I ordered a used copy of The Shipping News I discovered that I messed up. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #16

Oh dear, hermetic Aug 2015 #17

Thank you, hermetic. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #18

Just finished "Conversation in the Cathedral" eissa Aug 2015 #10

Thanks for joining in here hermetic Aug 2015 #11