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Peak is a great, action packed read.
Peak is the name of the hero of this book. A 14 year old living in NYC with his mom, step dad and twin half-sisters, Peak is a mountain climber. Except, due to a lack of mountains, he's taken to climbing skyscrapers. The story begins with Peak climbing the Woolworth building and his arrest.
I'm not 14 and I'm not a boy. Didn't matter. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian was a wonderful read. I'm recommending it to older kids and adults alike.
6 women, all married, with kids, living in the "burbs" and lamenting.
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Orhan Pamuk is a beautiful writer. The well-known Turkish writer may be more popular in the West due to his 2005 request that the Turkish Government admit to the Armenian Genocide of 1915-17. Standing up to the authorities got him temporarily exiled. But Pamuk is more than a dissident. He is a man who knows his literature and who uses plots, twists and wry humor to tell a small tale with big importance.
Reader and occasional writer. Read fiction and some non-fiction -- mainly about food, sustainable agriculture and cookbooks. Lately, reading a lot of children's books and YA because I work with kids.
