MUSEUMS & WOMEN and Other Stories by JOHN UPDIKE
I just love John Updike.
This collection held most of 'The Maples Stories', one of my personal favorites. I had already read some of the other short stories in this collection. Other stories included were fun, new discoveries, like 'The Deacon'.
The copy I got from the library succeeded in scandalizing my children every time they spied the cover, so Bonus Points for Updike. (See?)
The copy I got from the library succeeded in scandalizing my children every time they spied the cover, so Bonus Points for Updike. (See?)
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| Reading Updike on the beach, Fourth of July. |
THE AMATEUR MARRIAGE by ANNE TYLER
I just love Anne Tyler.
This was a re-read. I had read this story many years ago. In the spirit of full disclosure, I wasn't positive about that until I started to read. However... I just love Anne Tyler... so I kept reading...anyway, a lot of 'old' books are becoming more and more like new books. Though, for me, the first thing I forget is not the author, rather the ending, still I have found forgetting happens... true enough.
(I just love Billy Collins)
The Amateur Marriage 'time travels' with a couple, from their genesis during a WWII enlistment parade to a date just beyond the edge of 'Nine Eleven', where the story concludes just as we knew it would; with a love that endures (jet lagged though she be).
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE by Roger Hargreaves
A handful of Mr. Men and Little Miss books had been banished to the dollar bin @ BAM- so we adopted them.
Little Miss Sunshine thinks it is SILLY to do something just because a sign tells you to- especially if the sign makes you sad. I'm not sure encouraging Rye to paint anything was a great idea, but that is just how I described Little Miss Sunshine's problem solving... if you don't like what the sign says, paint a new sign that makes you happy.
Hmmm, perhaps these aren't meant to be moral tales.
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Because summer reading at our library instigated this series of semi-book reviews, I thought this would be the ideal post to put a link to OpenLibrary.org.
(You may or may not have noticed I linked at least one of the above books to its copy on OL... just trying to help.)
If you don't already have a (free) account there, you're wasting daylight, especially if you make use of an e-reader.
Go.
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