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bestcee

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I just finished "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue". And I haven't picked up another book yet, 2 days later, because the characters are still haunting me a bit. I wasn't sure about the book, it was slow in the beginning for me, and then it felt like a race to the end. But after reflection, it feels very much in the story, and how it was told. It was unique, and I enjoyed it.

So, what books have stayed with you? Any characters still haunting your thoughts?
 
Good question!

I just went to Libby and put a hold on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

The first book that came to mind for me was The Lager Queen of Minnesota. I knew nothing about it, checked it out purely because I was attracted to the cover. In a nutshell it's about 2 sisters who have a rift and stop speaking for many years. Their stories are told separately. I became so invested in these 2 ladies and when/how are they going to make up. I loved that book. Genuinely sad to see it end.
 
I haven't read either of those! I'll have to grab them.
 
dawnmarch said:
One character that stayed with me for a long time was Theo Decker, the main character in The Goldfinch by Donna Tarte. I loved that character and book.
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This was a book I never finished. At the point when he was in the apartment days later waiting for his mom I got so sad.
 
The Girl Who stole Books is one book that definitely stayed in my mind for a long time. I couldn't read it the first time I put my hands on it, I guess I wasn't read yet...one of my doctors recomended it so hard, my mom bought it...she adored the book. I could only read it many years later, when my mom passed. And this is one of my fave books so far.
 
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate and Educated by Tara Westover.
 
it's always the ones that make me cry, which, funny enough, are ones i read from TLP Bookclub months! Like -
tanteva said:
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
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and the Crawdads book -and kind of an aside, but i watched the crawdads movie on amazon prime earlier this year and i was sobbing by about 10mins in and it was a long movie, and i went thru like half a box of tissues and it took even longer because i kept having to kind of rewind it because i couldn't read the subtitles thru the tears and i couldn't hear over my own crying! but i can't remember if the book made me cry like that or it was just knowing all that was coming!
(sort of a footnote - this is why i'm not allowed to watch movies like The Notebook and i watch them on my own)
 
I read Night by Elie Wiesel in a college class it's a powerful true story . I even had the chance to meet him. It was an experience I'll never forget. It completely changed my life and till today the book haunts my thoughts
 
I loved The Goldfinch too. It's one of those books I can't really say why it resonated so much with me, but I've read it several times. I also read the Time Traveler's Wife several times too, so that was another good one.
 
I’ve got the Goldfinch and Invisible Life of Addie Larue on hold at the library. Books that stayed on my mind for a long I’ve were:
  • Golden Girl by Elian Hilderbrand
  • The One Hundred Years of Lenin and Margot
  • A Million Reasons Why
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
  • To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
  • This is How it Always is
  • Where the Crawdads Sing
  • Left Neglected
  • The Great Alone
 
I agree with Where the Crawdads Sing. That one stuck with me, both the character and the story. I read a lot of "fast fiction" - mostly thriller/mysteries/crime novels and they leave my head as soon as I finish them.
 
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