Another library sale find – I picked it up because of Wally Lamb, but it wasn’t written by him. This book contains essays written by the inmates of York correctional facility. It was okay, some where better than others, it was all very Orange is the New Black. String too Short to ...
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in part, to online courses and workshops that encourage this, they mine everything from their blog, slap it all together in a logical order, and write a few transitions. Voila, they call this a book. While it might technically be a book — it has 60,000 words ...
—Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much Is True “Quint is an expansive novel of multiple births, motherhood, siblings, celebrity, exploitation, loss and connection; this story truly contains the world. Dionne Irving is a fantastic writer; she tells this unique story with honesty and ...
And to Marie,We Are WaterbyWally Lamb. Here is the list of tantalizing books you shared: Back When We Were Grown-Ups,by Anne Tyler The Luminaries,by Eleanor Catton Forever,by Pete Hammill Gone Girl,by Gillian Flynn Netherland,by Joseph O’Neill ...
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably lov...
In addition, the texts are presented not in chronological order, but — in my opinion, at least — in order of merit, and the first three are far better than the last. The book takes its title from Duras’s first piece, La Douleur, drawn from the diary she kept over the weeks when...
I Know This Much is True,by Wally Lamb “On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable.” ...
To date myself, I remember waiting for Wally Lamb’s I Know This Much To Be True to come out in paperback because it was too heavy to lug on my commuter train! I’m grateful for eReaders! Rhonda M says: July 8, 2021 at 4:28 pm I love long books, but I do a lot of ...
We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True. After 27 years of marriage and three ...