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I have read many books lately that are a series of short stories with so many characters to keep track of. "Message from the Goon Squad" was the first, "The Tiger's Wife" was the second and now "Let the Great World Spin".
I do believe the world continually spins regardless of our lives and how we are intertwined together. In reality, we are all interconnected and humans do touch each others lives regardless of our situations.
New York was a perfect place for this book to play out and I also like ...more
I do believe the world continually spins regardless of our lives and how we are intertwined together. In reality, we are all interconnected and humans do touch each others lives regardless of our situations.
New York was a perfect place for this book to play out and I also like ...more

And, finally, my favorite read of the week, the month, maybe the year...Let the Great World Spin. I wish I was a deeper reader and a better writer, a person who could share with you all the wonderful thoughts you can take away from this book and all the brilliant ways the author used the metaphor of the wirewalker, stepping out over the slums and magnificent high rises of 1974 New York City, stepping out over the sad group of mothers who lost sons in Vietnam and the streetwalkers, stepping out o
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