Nicole Krauss' book "The History of Love" is just lovely. Continued my new-found theme of books with WWII connections, but mostly takes place around now in NYC. It is the story of Leo Gursky, a Polish Jew who survived the war and made his way to cracking locks and daydreaming in NYC, and the simultaneous coming-of-age story of Alma Singer. Alma's brother Bird is a genius in a 5 year olds body, not unlike another favorite literary child-philosopher, Bill Bob ("The River Why"). Recommended reading before or after: Jonathan Safran Foer's books "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Jonathan is married to Nicole, and really, if you read "Illuminated", and then "History" and finally "Extremely", you would have a near perfect trio which elegantly and surreally builds on itself.
Other books read recently:
Samurai's Garden by Gale Tsukiyama
The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (This is like the last season of Sopranos. I am pretty certain that David Chase and J.K. Rowling are in cahoots.)
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