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Kobi · 05-23-2015, 02:33 PM

What Comes Next and How to Like It" is an extraordinarily moving memoir about many things, but at the center is a steadfast friendship between Abigail Thomas and a man she met thirty-five years ago.

Through marriages, child-raising, the vicissitudes and tragedies of life, it is this deep, rich bond that has sustained her.

Readers who loved "the perfectly honed observations of a clear-eyed and witty writer" ("Newsweek") in Thomas's "spare, astonishing" ("Entertainment Weekly") memoir, "A Three Dog Life," will relish this beautiful examination of her life today--often solitary, but rich and engaging, with children, grandchildren, dogs, a few suitors, and her longtime best friend.
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Entertaining, thought provoking, and the longest chapter is 3 pages. Perfect for beach reading.

Humanesque · 05-26-2015, 01:04 PM

Gamers Gate- Game of Fear

Article sent to me by a friend.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/a.../28/gamergate/

Kobi · 06-04-2015, 11:18 AM

When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the acci-dent: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it.

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Engaging. Quick read.

Kobi · 06-23-2015, 11:06 AM

Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.

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Good beach reading.

05-23-2015, 02:33 PM	#1
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,617 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	What comes next and how to like it : a memoir / Abigail Thomas. What Comes Next and How to Like It" is an extraordinarily moving memoir about many things, but at the center is a steadfast friendship between Abigail Thomas and a man she met thirty-five years ago. Through marriages, child-raising, the vicissitudes and tragedies of life, it is this deep, rich bond that has sustained her. Readers who loved "the perfectly honed observations of a clear-eyed and witty writer" ("Newsweek") in Thomas's "spare, astonishing" ("Entertainment Weekly") memoir, "A Three Dog Life," will relish this beautiful examination of her life today--often solitary, but rich and engaging, with children, grandchildren, dogs, a few suitors, and her longtime best friend. --------------------------- Entertaining, thought provoking, and the longest chapter is 3 pages. Perfect for beach reading.

05-26-2015, 01:04 PM	#2
Humanesque Member How Do You Identify?: Human and approachable. Preferred Pronoun?: Human Relationship Status: Siri answered the question! Eating Shark Soup and laughing to the bank! Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Right where I am supposed to be on the Hill in the arms of friends,family my loved ones. California Posts: 198 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,781 Thanked 576 Times in 162 Posts Rep Power: 10572975	Gamers Gate Gamers Gate- Game of Fear Article sent to me by a friend. http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/a.../28/gamergate/

06-04-2015, 11:18 AM	#3
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,617 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	A three dog life / by Abigail Thomas. When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the eternal present, and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise, plainspoken, beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the acci-dent: You might not find meaning in disaster, but you might, with effort, make something useful of it. ---------------- Engaging. Quick read.

06-23-2015, 11:06 AM	#4
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,617 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	Outline by Rachel Cusk Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss. ------------------------------ Good beach reading.