I need to return this overdue library book. My sister gave it to me for Christmas so I will take my notes to that copy to peruse. I love books ABOUT books. This is about the books Will Schwalbe and his mom read and discussed as she was dealing with pancreatic cancer. He is gay and has a cooking website and his mom was involved in many good works, schools for Afghanistan being one. There is a list at the end of all the books they read. Of course, I am going to copy it. I wanted to read this book because I had a very good friend who died of pancreatic cancer and I love the title of the book. I didn't read books with my friend but I have very poignant memories of movies and plays we attended during his illness. He was wild to LIVE and to SHARE.
The other book I finished was NW, by Zadie Smith. I enjoyed it in spots, but it was somewhat confusing. Lots of London geographic references and switching of characters with no notice. Even the format is odd, going from single space to double space and choosing not to indent the beginning of paragraphs. It gave me an odd feeling of vertigo. (It probably doesn't help that I am reading 10 books at one time!) Someone (I forget who) voted this one of the top ten fiction books of 2012). Just sayin'.... NW stands for Northwest London and four characters are followed, 2 women and 2 men. They all grew up on a council estate called Caldwell and are now trying to make their adult lives. It is about "people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between".
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