*** A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow [CRussel, issybird, Dazrin]
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Print Length: 173 pages
*** My Real Children by Jo Walton [JSWolf, WT Sharpe, BenG]
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Print Length: 320 pages
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My Real Children is a 2014 Tiptree Winner.
It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know--what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev.
Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War--those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles?
Two lives, two worlds, two versions of modern history; each with their loves and losses, their sorrows and triumphs. Jo Walton's My Real Children is the tale of both of Patricia Cowan's lives... and of how every life means the entire world.
*** Three Cheers for Me by Donald Jack [issybird, CRussel, bfisher]
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Print Length: 256 pages
*** The Light of Day by Eric Ambler [BenG, CRussel, JSWolf]
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Print Length: 224 pages
*** The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman [WT Sharpe, Dazrin, BenG]
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Print Length: 366 pages
*** Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner [GA Russell, bfisher, issybird]
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Print Length: 322 pages
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“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner
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Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, “who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.”
*** Still Life by Louise Penny [JSWolf, treadlightly, Dazrin]
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Print Length: 377 pages
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