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What do the most awesome readers read?
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Sonja
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Apr 17, 2013 08:07AM
So, I'm feeling particularly awesome this morning. I have found myself wondering - what is the most awesome book you have read lately? The one that just sticks in your head and replaying little scenes in your imagination?
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I have been really drawn into the Song of Fire and Ice series lately. It is amazing how Martin juggles so many characters with so many story lines.
Despite my best efforts, I cannot stop thinking about "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys. It tells the story of the residents of the Baltic states who were arrested and deported to Siberia during the Stalinist regime in Russia. Focusing on a 16-year-old girl, her 10-year-old brother, and her mother, it lays bare the inhumanly vicious treatment to which the deportees were subjected by the NKVD (secret police.) Awful. Devastating. I feel like there is no way to find a "why" behind that level of cruelty.I have also felt it was unfortunate that this book was released only 6 or 9 months before "50 Shades of Gray" and wonder how many YA readers think they're getting quite a different kind of story when they pick it up.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Valis, and Ubik by Philip K Dick are about as awesome as they get. I Also loved Moby Dick (no relation).
Sonja,Your best efforts? Really? Psychoactive drugs? Continual thumps on the temples with a blunt object? Watching 6 TV shows and listening to a classical, Jazz, Rock, Spanish, and religious radio station all at the same time while sharpening pencils? Are you really putting your heart and soul into this stopping of the think?
The book sounds interesting, albeit maybe a little emotionally challenging to get through.
Tim wrote: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Valis, and Ubik by Philip K Dick are about as awesome as they get. I Also loved Moby Dick (no relation)."Ubik is awesome! I need to read those other two still.
