Fall Down On Your Knees-No Wait, Don’t

Several years ago a co-worker told me that she had read the greatest book-Beloved by Toni Morrison. Now there is a standard formula for novels that goes like this-run your hero up a tree, throw rocks at him, and then get him down. The formula for Beloved is more- run your hero over with a truck, throw him down a mine shaft, have him land on broken glass, let him bleed for a while, throw a big rock on top of him, and leave him to die. Do I need to tell you that Beloved was not my favorite book?So…

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Feed-it’s all been done before

Since I do a bit of traveling, I have the time to listen to a lot of books. I am not working my way through the 100 best books ever written, or following any plan at all for that matter. Just what pops up on the library shelf and looks like I might like it.feed- M.T. Anderson, David Aaron Baker (Narrator)-sounded like a kind of cool sci-fi novel, which I am pretty much a fan of. So I slide the first CD in hoping to have an interesting couple of hours. Somewhere it says satire in relation to this bit…

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