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Jilly_in_VA

(11,415 posts)
24. Klara and the Sun
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 03:03 PM
Nov 2022

by Kazuo Ishiguri. I'm loving it. It's the story of an AI, an Artificial Friend, told from her viewpoint. I'm not very far in yet. I just finished The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, which I had picked up on my Kindle not realizing it was written by Sara Loyster, who was one of my youngest brother's close friends in high school. It's a YA novel but quite good and very well written. Before that I'd slogged through The Afterlife of Alice Watkins by Matilda Scotney, all 733 Pages of it. Don't. When I got to the end I wondered why I'd bothered. I really hated the ending.

In hard copy I'm trying to read Annelies by David R. Gillham, which is an imagining if Anne Frank had survived the concentration camp. I'm finding it harder to read actual books these days. It''s just easier to read on Kindle.

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