CP Book Club - Jan 15 Nominations

[troutman]

Nominate and vote for the books you want to read (by thanking) . . .

Some good ones here:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/article...mber-2015.html

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Description: Juan Diego—a 14-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a 13-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming—specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lupe is a mind reader; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future—especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a girl be driven to do?

As an older man, Juan Diego takes a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories. Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past collides with his future.

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Description: From ancient Rome to medieval England to 1950s Hollywood, It Ended Badly guides you through the worst of the worst in historically bad breakups. Emperor Nero had just about everyone he ever loved—from his old tutor to most of his friends—put to death. Oscar Wilde’s lover, whom Wilde went to jail for, abandoned him when faced with being cut off from his wealthy family and wrote several self-serving books denying the entire affair. And poor volatile Caroline Lamb sent Lord Byron one hell of a torch letter and enclosed a bloody lock of her own pubic hair. Your obsessive social media stalking of your ex isn’t looking so bad now, is it? With a wry wit and considerable empathy, Wright digs deep into the archives to bring these 13 terrible breakups to life.

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Description: Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just details of hotels around the globe—they tell his life story. The puzzle of Reginald’s life comes together through reviews that comment upon his motivational speaking career, the dissolution of his marriage, the separation from his beloved daughter and his devotion to an amour known only as “K.” But when Reginald disappears, we are left with the fragments of a life—or at least the life he has carefully constructed.

[BuckPunny]

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman



"Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what. "