>What was the one I recommended?

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
A Novel
By Semple, Maria
(Book - 2012)
Position: 25 on 21 copies
Placed: Feb 20, 2013

I guess I will need to wait a month before it is available for me

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>Re gift books, I can be on the cold blooded side. I always thank the gift-giver effusively, that's the way I was raised. It's nothing less than they deserve for their generosity. Feeling an obligation to read it all the way through, that's another story. I keep the same standard as I do with books I buy myself: give every book a chance. If it hasn't sunk its tentacles in within 100 pages, which I consider a fair trial (even John LeCarre, a famously slow starter, had you within 100 pages), off to the library it goes. Too many books, too little time. I have already recognized that I will not read every book I have intended to read and the worthy books yet to come. "A Remembrance of Things Past" may have been the tipping point. It is an acknowledged world classic, even though the narrator apparently does nothing more exhilarating than sit up in bed, eat another madeleine, and remember his past. I have had a fancy pants edition of the 3000 pages in their entirety and never have I made it far out of the starting gate. To the library, where hopefully a young reader will buy it for a dollar and get it more than I did.


I am not reading much this days, half an hour each day, so the book should get me quickly before I switch it. But lately I've been just re-reading some books, an Argentinean book called "Martin Fierro", which I love, but I am not sure how well is translated, for me the rhyme in it is very important, and also the very "gaucheque" words he uses, then I re-read the whole collection of "Skuldgery Pleasant" (this are young children books that I read with my daughter and we really like), then the Lord of the Rings and now Children of Hurin. In short, you can see that I found re-reading almost as good as reading! :)