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The Limits: A Novel

By Nell Freudenberger.

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Books Read: 2019

January

The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)

February

Pillow Thoughts (Courtney Peppernell)

A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)

March

The Age of Light (Whitney Scharer)

The Winter Sister (Megan Collins)

April

Daisy Jones & The Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

The Kremlin Conspiracy (Joel C. Rosenberg)

The Municipalists (Seth Fried)

Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Miracle Creek (Angie Kim)

May

The Light of the Fireflies (Paul Pen)

Beyond The Point (Claire Gibson)

June

Lost and Wanted (Nell Freudenberger)

July 

The Flight Portfolio (Julie Orringer)

The Golden Hour (Beatriz Williams)

A Nearly Normal Family (M. T. Edvardsson)

August

September

Summer of ‘69 (Elin Hilderbrand)

October

The Gifted School (Bruce Holsinger)

November

The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)

The Whisper Man (Alex North)

December

The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware)

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Germania: dodicenne uccisa, sospettate due coetanee

(ANSA) – BERLINO, 14 MAR – Svolta clamorosa nelle indagini sul caso della dodicenne uccisa in Germania a Freudenberg, vicino Coblenza. Secondo quanto riportano i media tedeschi, fra cui la Dpa, sospettate dell’omicidio sarebbero due coetanee di 12 e 13 anni. Luise F. era scomparsa sabato scorso e il suo corpo senza vita è stato ritrovato in un bosco a pochi chilometri di distanza dal percorso che…

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'Lost And Wanted' Grapples With Grief, Regret And The Existence Of God

Nell Freudenberger's gorgeous new novel tells the story of a middle-aged woman who receives messages sent from her college friend's cell phone — even after her friend has died.

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What I suddenly thought of, standing in the dark room, were the plaster casts from Pompeii: the lidded, alarmed eyes, mouth slightly open, chin tilted up, as if her face had been fixed in a moment of suffering. Suffering, but in four dimensions - what you might call yearning.

Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

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New from Knopf and novelist Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted. (Read the NPR review here.)

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“I don’t shush Jack often, but I did then. The raw heartlessness of children continues to surprise me. Much is made of their sensitivity and purity-- and those things are true of Jack-- but I’ve been fascinated to observe that we aren’t born with empathy, that our own needs and wants radically trump those of all others, at least until we learn to feel otherwise.” 

“I think that with most of our friends we choose how much of ourselves to reveal, and with a very select few it feels as if there is no choice.” 

“‘You don’t give a fuck what people think,’ Terrence said. ‘Thanks?’ ‘Yeah, man,’ he said, ‘It’s a compliment.’” 

“It’s astonishing for someone of my generation to see how uncritically young people today believe in romantic love. They’ve exploded gender, race, class, all the old shibboleths. But for some reason love is unassailable.”

Book: Lost & Wanted Author: Nell Freudenberger Published: Alfred A. Knopf (2019)

My Review: I was kind of hoping that this would be more of a science-fiction, ghost-story type of book, but it’s really not. It’s just a regular ol’ story about life and death, love and grief. It wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t what I was expecting. 

Helen-- an accomplished scientist, author, and single mom by choice-- loses her friend and college roommate to complications from lupus (or, more accurately, physician assisted suicide). She’s left to make peace with the trajectory of their friendship, and as she moves through her grief, she comes to a deeper understanding of herself and the people around her: her son, her friends’ husband and daughter, her ex-lover... 

Perusing the reviews for this book, I noticed many people complaining about the complicated scientific concepts incorporated into the story. There is definitely a physics flavor to the book, but I personally didn’t find it too prohibitive or intense. Even folks at The Book of The Month (where I picked this one up) cautioned that Lost & Wanted is ‘very challenging’ and ‘occasionally slow-going,’ so I went into the book prepared to do some serious work. Turned out I had no need to worry-- most of the science was understandable (at least on the most basic levels) and what wasn’t understandable didn’t seem totally necessary to fully appreciate the story.

At the end of the day I’d give this book a respectable 3 out of 5 stars. 

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Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger https://amzn.to/2HSacZM

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Nell Freudenberger  | God and Me

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#recently read

I’m still reading a lot while on chat staff duty, so here’s a not-quite-but-mostly exhaustive list of my recent reads. I starred some of my favorites.

Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell. A collection of bizarre and supernatural short stories. I particularly liked “The Gondoliers” and “Orange World.”

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw. A doctor specializing in supernatural medicine tangles with a murderous cult with strange powers of their own. First book in a trilogy. By a former HS fic writer!

*Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. A multi-generational story about a Black family exploring how the decisions people make when they’re young can reverberate years later.

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell. Biography of Virginia Hall, a disabled American who maintained one of the largest spy networks of the French Resistance during WWII. Bit densely written. 

Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger. A physicist is surprised when she begins receiving messages from a friend... after that friend’s death. About loss as it’s experienced by both adults and children. 

Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang. I think I need to accept thrillers are not really my thing. I did like the concept behind the protagonist's abilities though - the idea that being superhumanly good at math (calculating trajectories, ricochets, etc.) - makes her effective in a fight.

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason. A loose retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the princess is “cursed” to always know the truth behind people’s worlds. Also, it’s in space.

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. Explores two lesser known historical topics - the blue people of Kentucky and the WPA packhorse librarian program.

*Murderbot Diaries (series) by Martha Wells. A part-organic, part-synthetic SecUnit (security unit) calling itself Murderbot would rather spend its time watching TV, but it keeps having to rescue hapless humans it insists it doesn’t care about.

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar. Poems by a Pakistani-American, with themes of identity, discrimination, and Partition.

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Shock in Germania, due coetanee sospettata per la morte di una dodicenne

Svolta clamorosa nelle indagini sul caso della dodicenne uccisa in Germania a Freudenberg, vicino Coblenza. Secondo quanto riportano i media tedeschi, fra cui la Dpa, sospettate dell’omicidio sarebbero due coetanee di 12 e 13 anni. Luise F. era scomparsa sabato scorso e il suo corpo senza vita è stato ritrovato in un bosco a pochi chilometri di distanza dal percorso che la bambina avrebbe dovuto…

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Books I Didn’t Finish in 2019 - Part 2 - To Be Continued

Like with romance, reading a book can be a lot about timing. Here is a list of books I picked up at the wrong time in 2019 but hope to find my way back to someday. 

The Dream Songs - John Berryman 

I made it about halfway through and there were some astonishing poems in the collection (see dream songs 29 or 45 for an example). It’s a huge collection, which made it difficult to power through in the time I had it checked out from the library, but I’d love to spend more time with Berryman’s work. 

Give Me Your Hand - Megan Abbott 

An excellent start to a fun, layered thriller. Life events kept me from following the momentum of the story to its conclusion, but I definitely plan to finish it some other time. 

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

I started this because I needed something short to read over a weekend trip. This was a terrible pick. Although it might be short, it’s emotionally dense and difficult to read. Whitehead’s writing is masterful, though, and the story is intriguing. 

Lost and Wanted - Nell Freudenberger

Not at all the thriller I was expecting when I picked it up, but instead a lovely, emotionally complicated story. I had a death in the family around the time I started the book which, given its focus on grief, made it too harrowing of a read at the time.

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Remembered Relationships

#BOOKREVIEW - Remembered Relationships - #LostAndWanted #blog

Loss and grief can make people behave in odd ways or believe in remarkable things they might not otherwise consider as it does for a physicist and a young girl in Nell Freudenberg’s Lost and Wanted. 

A few days after her long-time friend Charlie’s death, and after a year-long period of not talking to one another, Helen has started getting texts from Charlie’s phone, making her think it must be…

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April New Releases!

Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray April 16, 2019 Synopsis: An unexpected offer threatens the bond between Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as the two Jedi navigate a dangerous new planet and an uncertain future in the first canon Star Wars novel to take place before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Ummmmmm… My favorite Jedi back in another new story (besides the one COMING TO…

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Lost and Wanted, a new novel by Nell Freudenberger out on 4/2

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