Mel, I think you will like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I haven't been able to bring myself to read The Road -- I'm afraid it's just going to be too dreary and pessimistic for me. (Though I'm truly not one who insists on happy endings, or happy beginnings. I do like to be able to find a glimmer of hope at some point in the text, though -- it doesn't have to be at the end. :))
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Book club book for this past Thursday. Good stuff. Several heartbreaking passages/events. From Amazon
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In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human." When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong... Words like "provocative" and "compelling" will come to mind as you read this shocking novel about first contact with a race that creates music akin to both poetry and prayer. 405 pages.
Now You See Him by Eli Gottleib
Fiction by a local author. Okay.262 pages.
Buffy in Denver
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