I finished Snow Falling on Cedars last night and I was really caught up in it by the end. I could see then why the author had set things up in the detailed way he had. San Piedro Island had become a real place to me by the denouement, and when I looked up it was almost surprising not to be in the middle of a terrible snowstorm.
I still had time for The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, which is only 121 pages long. Bennett writes amusingly of the Queen taking up reading, and there were several laugh-out-loud moments. Things get a little more serious as the book goes on, with the author imagining how singular it must be to be the Queen, and there is an excellent conclusion.
Goats Get Outshined By Farm Cat After Farmer Tries to See Which One of the
Kids Has the "Shared Brain Cell" of the Day, Goes Viral
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And to think we thought cats were the ones sharing one brain cell—seems
more like they have at least TWO.
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