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"I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.

Because my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. I was born in Hawaii, moved from th
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“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
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“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
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“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
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The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
2008, 399 pages, 4.06 stars
$11.99 Kindle, $7.69 and up used, at library



The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
 
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Recursion by Blake Crouch
Goodreads Choice Winner 2019
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Memory makes reality.

That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome-a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

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But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?
 
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
1968, 244 pages, 4.09 stars
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It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
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The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
 
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Misa Thank you for accepting my friendship on Goodreads, it's a big Honor. Your book A Summer to Die was the book that made me love reading. Thank you so much.


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