If you are a reader, you more than likely have heard of the Book " The Memory Keepers Daughter". Why, I don't know, this was one of the hardest, saddest books I have ever read. It starts of happy enough with a young, very in love couple expecting their first child. As a snow storm moves through their town the baby comes. It turns out that there are twins. One is a boy the other a girl. The baby girl has Downs syndrome, without thinking it over the dad sends the baby girl away. The books gets very sad at this point and turns into a book about a lot of hurt and emptyness. I don't
understand why this book was such a big book in 2008.
The next book is Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
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It puzzles me, too, why "fine literature" is full of hard, sorrowful, depressing novels when humor is much harder to write. Sorrow is universal, whereas humor is unique to each person.
I haven't read either of those, I really want to read Coraline; it's on my 'to read' list...I went to see the film first because I wanted to enjoy the visuals without thinking about what they'd left out which is normally what I do when I watch films of books! :-)
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