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^^ End of August Reading? ^^
| Fri, 08-26-2005 - 8:58am |
Which books are you reading as August winds down?
Author, genre & a plot snippet are appreciated :)

| Fri, 08-26-2005 - 8:58am |
Which books are you reading as August winds down?
Author, genre & a plot snippet are appreciated :)

In honor of the 9/11 anniversary coming up I decided to read
102 minutes : the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers
The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers-reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it-until now. Of the millions of words written about this wrenching day, most were told from the outside looking in. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken the opposite-and far more revealing-approach. Reported from the perspectives of those inside the towers, 102 Minutes captures the little-known stories of ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. Beyond this stirring panorama stands investigative reporting of the first rank. An astounding number of people actually survived the plane impacts but were unable to escape, and the authors raise hard questions about building safety and tragic flaws in New York's emergency preparedness. Dwyer and Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews with rescuers, thousands of pages of oral histories, and countless phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women-the nearly 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished-as they made 102 minutes count as never before.
This book makes me feel as if I'm right there in the Towers with all of those people. There have been a couple of times my heart started pounding while reading.
Matt Hunter made a mistake when he was 20 years old and paid for it with a four-year stint in prison that left him with a determination never to be locked up again. Finally, his life is back on the promising track he was taking before he accidentally killed a man: He has a good job, a newly pregnant wife he adores, and is about to close on the home of their dreams. Then he gets a couple of bizarre photos on his cell phone that seem to show his wife in a compromising position with a black-haired stranger. But before he can sort out who sent the anonymous pictures and why, he's running from the law--especially from the cop who was his best friend in grade school, and a sharp young detective who's stepped right into the middle of an FBI investigation spurred by the discovery that a dead nun who wasn't who she claimed to be is somehow mixed up in Matt and Olivia Hunter's life.
I am reading Reynolds Price's novel The Good Priest's Son. It starts off on Sept. 11, when a man returning from a trip to Paris has his plane diverted to Nova Scotia. The rest of the novel concerns his relationship with his father, an aging minister, and his daughter.
TK
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I'm reading "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. Here's the editorial review from Amazon:
Mine is a story of craving; an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered." So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O; and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. But Dolores is no quitter; she battles her woes with a sense of self-indulgence and gluttony rivaled only by Henry VIII. Hers is a dysfunctional Wonder Years, where growing up in the golden era was anything but ideal. While most kids her age were dealing with the monumental importance of the latest Beatles single and how college turned an older sibling into a long-haired hippie, Dolores was grappling with such issues as divorce, rape, and mental illness. Whether you're disgusted by her antics or moved by her pathetic ploys, you'll be drawn into Dolores's warped, hilarious, Mallomar-munching world.
It's pretty depressing, don't know if I like it or not at this point. I have about 1/4 of the book left to read. Not sure what book I'll start on next.
Sarenna
"Excursion to Tindari" is my current read - - set in a fictional Italian town, Inspector Salvo Montalbano investigates the murder of a man in front of his apt. and the disappearance of a mysterious elderly couple who reside in the same bldg.
I'm reading The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble. It's a year in the life of a book club and alternates between the different members and what is happening to them. I'm about 100 pages into it and so far it's pretty good.
scrappy
I am reading "Never Let Me Go" by Krzuo Ishiguro - This books got alot of good reviews but I'm having a little difficulty with it and not loving it.
The premise is a private school in the English countryside. These children are special but almost half way through this book I am not sure how? If any of you have read this please let me know what you thought. Thanks, Sue
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