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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I downloaded “Tilt” after hearing an NPR host gush about it. What a mistake!

It was billed as a realistic and thoroughly researched thriller about the aftermath of a major earthquake. It is none of those things! It’s page after page of griping about being pregnant. And not in an interesting or funny way, just trite throwaway observations like “pregnant women pee a lot” and “maternity clothes are expensive.”

I should have known not to trust NPR![/quote]

Oh yeah, I just heard that interview on NPR yesterday. I've sadly learned to discount NPR recs, too! I do usually like the NY Times recommendations, though.

I'm reading a book called Eurotrash, by Christian Kracht - about a middle aged writer picking up his sick and complicated mother to take her on what he thinks will be a final road trip through Switzerland for the two of them. Lots of reckoning with the family's Nazi past, among other things. I have to look up a new word every few pages - I don't read a lot of books where I don't know the words anymore.

I'm a little over halfway through. I don't know if I'd say I love it but I'm really glad I picked it up. It was longlisted for a Booker.[/quote]

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