54 - The Myth of You and Me, by Leah Stewart, 276 pages, Three Rivers Press, 2005
WHY I PICKED IT: Picked it up in Powell's Books in Portland
ELAPSED TIME: 2 days
RATING: REQUIRED READING
Cameron meets Sonia when she was 15, and they became best friends... from high school, college, and starting their lives. Now, 8 or 9 years later, they've not spoken since just after college ... this is that story. The friendship between two women, the reasons they broke up, and the paths that their lives took.
A brilliant tale that sucks you in and reminds you of your own faded friendships... so much so that the author has a place on her website for just such stories (some of which she includes in an appendix to the book).
(as an aside, how much of enjoying a book is being in the right frame of mind to enjoy it? how many "bad" books were simply because I was a "bad audience" when I tackled it? how many brilliant books are simply the right message at the right time?)
This blog is a simple review of every book that I read... For all books I’ll tell you why I picked it, how long it took me to read it, and give it a rating (burn it, not good, meh, good, very good, and required reading). I ask (encourage?) all readers of my blog to post their thoughts of any of the books in my comments :). Thanks!
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