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October 28, 2005
I Just Finished the Sweetest Book
And by "sweetest," I do not mean twee or saccharine. I mean a lovely, kind, thoughtful, gentle, hopeful novel. It's the kind of story where you go back and read the last few pages several times because they are so perfect and because you don't want the pleasure of the book to end.
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
It's going in my stack of books to read to Dave.
Speaking of which, we finished Thud! last night. Brilliant, brilliant book. (Though we did both agree that it felt a bit hurriedly written/edited.) Once again, Terry Pratchett has written a story that kept us reading until the middle of the night because there was no place to stop (I think we read the last third of Night Watch in one go and finally finished around 3am). We just had to keep reading. No choice. No one was sleeping until we knew what happened next. And what happened after that. And after that. And how they dealt with the results of that. And what they discovered then. And how that changed things. And what happened next.
It will be a sad, sad day when we know for sure that I'll never get to do the voices of Sargeant Colon, Nobby Nobbs, Angua, Carrot, Cheery Littlebottom, Detritus, Lady Sybill, Lord Vetinari and Sam Vimes again in a new book.
Next on the list, Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys. And then once that's done, there's Karl Hiassen's new kids' book Flush, With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed by Lynne Truss, Alexander McCall Smith's The Sunday Philosophy Club, and the little gem of a novel I just finished.
Posted by sally at October 28, 2005 12:03 PM
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