Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[coffeesnob318]

I just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I read this book on account of multiple recommendations, and I'm so glad. I love it and its author and have a fantasy that he will be driving through Denton (with his wife, of course) some day and stop for coffee. And I will be there, and we will have a conversation about coffee and life and other impossibly sweet books that I might read over the course of the next year. I'm certain that reading this book made me a nicer person.

I know that people who have read the very same copy as I feel the same way. And this is how I know (Maggie, stop reading). When I got to a particularly sweet/sad passage, there was written in the margin (I know, Maggie - we aren't supposed to write in books, even if it was in pencil) the words, "This part made me cry a little." Written next to it - "I agree." I added, "Me, too!" This book brings people (albeit slightly renegade people who dare to write in library books in pencil) together.

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[nonnierms.livejournal.com]

In my younger years, I would never have written in a library book. But I will admit that I have joined the pencil-renegades when its a particularly good non-fiction book :p