Challenge: 50 Books discussion
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*Laurie's List - 2010*
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- First of all, Eeeww!! Necrophilia.
- I'm curious also about the ending? When he gets out of the lake with his shovel and heads back to Friendship to be with the ones he loves. Does that mean he is going to properly bury everyone in Friendship because he loves the town and the people so much. Or, does it mean he is going to dig up his wife and daughter and play house with them again? I kind of take it to mean both, but more-so the being with his family. (Again, eeewww!! He knows what he is doing on some level because he mentions that he should have used more fluid when his wife's jaw starts to show or droop or whatever. How nasty (and sinky!) to be sitting around with a corpse?? And, he even bathes her - gross).
- Is he is crazy already or does this epidemic push him over the edge? I looked up some information on diphtheria and not everyone is susceptible to it, so Jacob probably was the carrier and infected all those people. I didn't find anything that mentioned that the infection can cause people to go crazy, though, so that does not seem to be related to the disease. By burning the elderly woman alive in her nephew's (or whatever relation's) house, and having to kill the cow, the cat, etc., does he just go mad or was he already a little bit ways down that path? Seems to me that we're led to think he's already troubled, at a minimum, seeing as how he won't ride a horse and the way he takes such painstaking pride in his work as the undertaker. Seems to me like he considers that his primary job and being the town preacher is secondary. We just experience so much more detail of him taking care of the dead than preaching. And what was up with the statement about the war guy that he fed and when he buried him Jacob had to make sure his shirt sleeves were down so that people wouldn't see the strips of skin missing? Is he a cannibal, too?
- I didn't really care much for the 2nd person narrative. I'm guessing it was written that way to impress that driven to extreme's, anyone is capable of anything. "You did this" and "You did that" just didn't really resonate with me, though. If anything, it made me more detached from the story.

Fun stuff!!! I'm digging this series. Can't decide yet if I am on "Team Bill" or "Team Eric"!








#1 - A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#2 - Heat Wave - Richard Castle
#3 - Human Anatomy & Physiology - Longenbaker
#4 - The Diamond of Darkhold - Jeanne DuPrau
#5 - Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris
#6 - Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Jennifer Rardin
#7 - Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet
#8 - Scratch Beginnings - Adam Shepherd
#9 - The Van Alen Legacy - Melissa de la Cruz
#10 - Tears of Pearl: A Novel of Suspense - Tasha Alexander
#11 - Law & Ethics for Medical Careers, fifth edition - Karen Judson, Carlene Harrison
#12 - The Moth Diaries - Rachel Klein
#13 - Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris
#14 - Another One Bites the Dust - Jennifer Rardin
#15 - Biting the Bullet - Jennifer Rardin
#16 - Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
#17 - Bitten to Death - Jennifer Rardin
#18 - Medical Insurance - Valerius
#19 - Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
#20 - Frostbite - Richelle Mead
#21 - To A God Unknown - John Steinbeck
#22 - Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
#23 - Blue Bloods - Keys to the Repository - Melissa de la Cruz
#24 - Commencement - J. Courtney Sullivan
#25 - One More Bite - Jennifer Rardin
#26 - Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
#27 - Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
#28 - Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan
#29 - Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
#30 - The Complete Diagnosis Coding Book - Safian
#31 - Bite Marks - Jennifer Rardin
#32 - Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
#33 - All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
#34 - From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris
#35 - Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris
#36 - Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
#37 - The Complete Procedure Coding Book - Safian
#38 - Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
#39 - Jane Bites Back - Michael Thomas Ford
#40 - The Demigod Files - Rick Riordan
***2009***
#1 - Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series)
#2 - The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
#3 - The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
#4 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
#5 - A Prayer for the Dying - Stewart O'Nan
#6 - Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
#7 - The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
#8 - The People of Sparks - Jeanne DuPrau
#9 - College Success Guide - Karine Blackett and Patricia Weiss
#10 - The Prophet of Yonwood - Jeanne DuPrau
#11 - Business English, fourth edition - Barron's
#12 - Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
#13 - Medical Office Procedures - Becklin
#14 - Stardust - Neil Gaiman