Twins

Fiction by Marcy Dermansky.



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This is a book about a pair of identical twin teenagers who have virtually absent parents.

Good book, but a little dark. These are some seriously psychologically messed-up twins. Which I don't think is indicated by the cutesy-pootsey cover above.

The cover of the copy I read was better.>>>>>>>

Although I guess that cover wasn't particularly psychologically messed-up either.

It's just prettier.

(second image from http://en.wikipedia.org/)

Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage

Subtitled : "Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love, and Marriage"
Nonfiction by Mark Gungor


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Good marriage book; more entertaining than most.

Also I felt it was pretty practical. For example he spent nearly half the book on s-e-x. Now that's practicality!

Especially for a man....

Road to Grace

Fiction by Richard Paul Evans.


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Good book.

Unfortunately, it's number THREE in a series, and I haven't read numbers one and two.

Grr. I hate it when that happens.

Incendiary

Fiction by Chris Cleave.


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Okay. This book, with it's cutey-pretty-nice bright blue cover is about a horrible subject: a woman who lost her husband and only son in a terrorist attack.

And since it's about a (fortunately) fictional attack (on London at a football match), the author feels no compunction to be life-affirming or uplifting, the way everyone is with the post-9/11 stories. So it's pretty grim in a lot of ways. But also interesting, and I think more realistic because of the dark quality.

So... NOT a feel-good book. But a good book nonetheless.

Sisterchicks on the Loose!

Fiction by Robin Jones Gunn.


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Good book.

It was better than I expected. Chick-lit, but not as light and fluffy as I thought it would be.

Worth reading.

I Hate Everyone--Starting With Me

Nonfiction by Joan Rivers.


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Joan Rivers. Isn't she dead?

That's what my husband said when he saw me reading this book.

No. She is not dead. She is alive, and mean, and funny.

This book is not for the sensitive. At some point, and likely more than once, Joan will say she hates you personally in this book. It's still funny though.

A Lucky Child

Subtitled "A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy"
Nonfiction by Thomas Buergenthal.


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Really good memoir.

Glad this guy didn't give up when he was told by many American publishers that "Holocaust books don't sell."