Monday, April 25, 2011

Book 21, Final Blog...delayed

Ok, so I completed Book 21- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - quite some time ago.  I read it very quickly.  I enjoyed it thoroughly.  I don't remember much more than that.  My brain has been a bumbly jumble of thoughts, lines, ideas - some mine, some others - so much so lately that I am losing track.  I'm entirely too young for this kind of behavior which leads me to hope - at the very least HOPE that this is merely an attention issue.  I am not paying as much attention.  I'm letting things slip. 

Wow...my blog suddenly became about me, rather than about my reading.  Annoying. 

Anyway, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was a beautiful and moving 9/11 story from the perspective of a child (for the most part) but I wouldn't necessarily call it a children's or Young Adult book.  There is some tough stuff in there...nothing a kid couldn't handle...but just some stuff you might want to know about before handing over a copy to Jr. for summer reading. 

But an excellent read.  I want to read more of Jonathan Safran Foer's work and definitely read and see Everything is Illuminated. Talented writer. Moving story. Good book.

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