I can admit when I'm wrong. Last week I mentioned that I've been reading the Book Thief for months and basically just slogging through it to finish, not because I was really into it but because when I buy something on Kindle, I stick with it dammit. The narration is a bit quirky, the plot is pretty vague and moves really slowly, so I didn't really get what the hype was about. Well, I finally finished and all I can say is Wow! I highly recommend it, basically for the last 25% of the book, and if you don't ugly-cry your eyes out by the end, then your heart is made of stone.
Of course, after Book Thief put me through the wringer, I turned to Stori Telling for a pick-me-up. Yes, the tori in Stori stands for Tori Spelling, and I read her "autobiography." I know what you're thinking but please don't get all judgey. Not a bad book really, pretty much what you'd expect to hear from her and decently written. But let me save you the trouble of reading it and give you the summary. She was cast on 90210 because of who her father was, and then she has fought against who she is trying to prove herself in acting over the last 15 years. Surprise! The biggest disappointment -- not a whole lot of 90210 dirt (oh c'mon!) except she says that she hooked up with Brian Austin Green throughout the filming of 90210, but it was on and off and he never admitted to anyone that he was seeing her, so he was basically ashamed of it. Ouch, T.
Next up, The Racketeer by John Grisham, just because my brain put in another time off request.
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I haven't even heard of the Book Thief. I might have to propose that next for book club. I'm reading Sisterland right now, which I am really enjoying. It's about twins, so you might have to check it out. But it's by the same author as Prep and American Wife, if you read either of those.
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