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A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan. ... Cryptonomicon, Kingsolver's awesome The Poisonwood Bible, Kent Haruf's Plainsong, Stewart O'Nan's greatest book A Prayer for the Dying, and Roddy Doyle's thrilling A Star Called Henry. In non-fiction Peter Guralnick came out with volume 2 of his landmark biography of EP, Careless ... ... O'Nan ... Yay Me!
no Touchstones for Stewart O'Nan? He wrote Prayer for the Dying, which I've heard tons about... but no TS for him? Oh well...
edited to do TS's job. :-p~ pblt! Desserts Pasteries and Fancy Cakes by GL Wennberg who was the former Head Patissier at the Hotel D'Angleterre, Copenhagen. It was $1 at a local shop. ... Fire very much, though parts of it were as grim as anything I've ever read, and especially recommend O'Nan's 1999 novel A Prayer for the Dying.
hazelk, I came to The Book Thief from many of the same angles as you described above, found very little I liked about it either, and bailed on ... Recently finished:
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
Miss Marple's Final Cases by Agatha Christie
Psychopath by Keith Ablow
Currentl ... Recently finished:
Velocity by Dean Koontz
The Night Crew by John Sandford
Currently reading:
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
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