Honourable Mentions to "The Open House" and "Appleby's Answer", both by Michael Innes
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Honourable Mentions to "The Open House" and "Appleby's Answer", both by Michael Innes
pick7th grader Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, which is part of the National Quiet Zone where radio and hence wifi devices are banned to help the work of radio astronomers.
An enjoyable black comedy about finding friends and incidentally recovering from traumatic episodes in the past. Some truly lol moments.
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10% of the way in I thought my partner would like this story so I looked up whether it had been made into a film or TV series and one of the top ghits has a massive spoiler in the snippet it shows.
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#Survivor
#charactercharm
Very bleak, they survived a nuclear attack for a while...
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“Good fortune and bad luck are always tied together with invisible unbreakable thread. When it comes to sorrow, no one is immune.”
Alice, like me (19 years in remission) and thousands of others, is a breast cancer survivor. A re-read provides a lovely reminder of what‘s really important.
#Survivor
#CharacterCharm
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#CharacterCharm Day 25: #Survivor - one of the books I bought during the NYRB Sitewide Summer Sale. See here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rDE
