one of the first things i did when i got to houston was get a library card at the public library in my neighborhood. my librarian aunts will be very proud. it's so nice to get free books after buying oh-so-many books in grad school last year!
oryx and crake, by margaret atwood (a library book, one that was recommended to me by a new york friend and one that i really liked. it's post-apocolyptic (an excellent genre) and written beautifully - margaret atwood is such a fantastic writer. confusing for a while...you don't even know what the title means for a very long time (who, or what, are oryx and crake?), but it all comes together by the end. i'd recommend it!)
life after life, by kate atkinson (this was my book club book this month, and it was the book i nominated - hooray! the main character has the ability to go back in time and start parts of her life over if the ending doesn't work out the way she wants it to. it's set in england and germany in the 1910s onward, and hitler is involved. i was VERY intrigued by this book and liked how the time travel / re-living / whatever worked. and it was so interesting to watch an author imagine how life could be different with just one moment changed. this will make an awesome movie, which i'm sure is in the works. i highly recommend it!)
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