Some Of The Most Satisfying Fiction I Have Read This Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     Believe it or not, girls, I got this book from Patti Lu Pone!  Not personally; if one logs onto her website, and see links, there is a list of book recommendations by Patti, and I commend her, because, in addition to being a consummate artist, she is quite a reader, one after my own heart!

                                      Of course, as a Theater Queen I would love to have a show discussion with Patti, but I think Patti would have more fun with a book discussion.  I mean, how many times can she be asked how many times the lamb pooped on stage each night in "Gypsy?"  I bet Laura Benanti knows!

                                      I had never heard of this novel or Wallace Stegner till I got onto Patti's site.

                                      I bought the book right away, but it has been sitting in my pile for ages.  One thing this pandemic has done that is good is force me to read books I thought I never would get to.
And here I found a gem.

                                        "Angle Of Repose" is two stories in one.  In 1970, Lyman Ward, a retired history professor, confined to a wheel chair with a debilitating bone disease that leaves him paralyzed, talks into a tape recorder, and with a student assistant, delves into files that records that unearth the story of his grandfather, Oliver Ward, whom he always worshipped, while laying bare some not so pleasant truths about him, their marriage, his grandmother's accomplishments, and her failings.

                                         For all of its 632 pages--which I just raced through, I was enthralled.  A book has not gotten me this excited in awhile, and that is saying something, darlings. So, I want you all to order a copy online--bookstores are not open, so that is what one must do--and you will be in for a thrilling and memorable reading experience.  I knew that whatever I followed it up with, would be a tough act to follow!

                                            So read "Angle Of Repose."  It is a MUST!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            And thanks, Patti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!