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Old 05-30-2020, 07:27 PM
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Thank you. I will take your advice. Book first.

I think you just rescued Mr. Boomer from watching the movie with me, tonight. He just finished reading “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” by Lawrence Wright. That’s the book that won the Pulitzer for Wright. It is also a Hulu series now. Mr. B. is watching it, but I don’t want to.

Lawrence Wright is the writer who just published “The End of October” that was mentioned earlier in the thread. It’s fiction, about a pandemic. He started it a couple of years ago and gave it to his publisher last year.

Mr. Boomer and I have very different reading lists. I try to keep him supplied with books I think he will like. I am always right, but I do think there is a good chance he would leave me for Doris Kearns Goodwin if she ever gave him a come hither look. I think he has read almost every book she has written. “Team of Rivals” is his favorite.
Celeste Ng's first book, Everything I Never Told You, is not bad either. Not as good as Little Fires, but a close second. She really has family dynamics down pat.


BTW... In Little Fires Everywhere, you're gonna wanna slap some people.
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