August 27, 2002 :: Tuesday
09:38 PM
Books
Beach reading
The Amazon ad on the right showed a book called Beach House by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge so I clicked on it because it reminded me of a better book, Beach Music by Pat Conroy. It's long and rambling covering years and years. It wanders between the main character's current life in Italy with his young daughter and his youth back in the South in the US, both before he married and after. It explores the legacies of his parents, his wife's parents, World War II and being southern.
It is a musical book, a tune that wanders in and out of my head even now, after all these years since I read it. When I moved three years ago, I pared down my library to the bare minimum, keeping only a couple boxes of books, this was one of those books, along with anything written by Scott Turow, that I could not get rid of.
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