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Finished Luckiest Girl Alive. Mostly OK; I'll probably try Jessica Knoll's next book. There are two timelines--one in the present, the other in 2001, when the heroine was starting high school. We gradually learn what happened back then to turn her into what she is in the present day. What is extremely jarring, however, is that the high school story begins squarely in the days and weeks immediately before and after 9/11, but that event is never mentioned! Even odder, the setting is the Philly area--a plane went down in Pennsylvania, for goodness' sakes! The author repeatedly mentions that it's 2001, but nary a word about 9/11 even in passing? Seriously? That took me out of the story. It's like setting a story in December 1941 and totally ignoring Pearl Harbor.
Then I listened to The Daughter, by Jane Shemilt. Also OK; held my interest, but the protagonist here--a mother/physician whose teenage daughter has disappeared--is annoying. She's oblivious to anything that challenges her preconceived notions, both at home and at work, and I wish less time had been spent on that and more on her daughter's story.
I had planned to listen next to Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl and Miep Gies's Anne Frank Remembered, but I'll put them off until after I listen to Harper Lee's new book.
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