Joe’s Comments (group member since Oct 17, 2014)

Joe’s comments from the The Ishpeming Carnegie Library Book Club group.

Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
It looked interesting, seems like it might hit some of the desires of some in the group. I know nothing of this book, only the summary:

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. Sadly, she dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual.

For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways. Clearly history (and Kate Atkinson) have plans for her: In Ursula rests nothing less than the fate of civilization.

Wildly inventive, darkly comic, startlingly poignant — this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best, playing with time and history, telling a story that is breathtaking for both its audacity and its endless satisfactions.

I was also wanting to read
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams