Fiction

mentalsolstice

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25. "Middlesex" and "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

Wed Jan 4, 2012, 07:55 PM

Jan 2012

I'm surprised it took me so long to get to Middlesex. I included "Kevin" because I finished it several weeks ago and my husband is now reading it and we're constantly talking about it, with me trying not give too much away. He has just now got a bug for reading fiction, maybe because he'll be retiring soon. It's so fun to discuss books with him now and watch his imagination take him away. Reading for pleasure wasn't very encouraged in his family, it was considered a lazy activity. Whereas reading for entertainment was everything to my mom.

He finished TGWTDT right before the movie, and enjoyed seeing the movie after having read the book. Now some of the women in his office are encouraging him to read "The Hunger Games" series, it's probably not for me, but I think it would be great if he tried it out.

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