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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
4.0

This book was a good book. Unfortunately, if it hadn't been a book club book I may have lost interest and set it down. I'm glad I didn't. The characters lived with me for days after I finished the book. I found myself thinking of them and wanting to pick up the book only to remember I had already finished reading it.

The writing is choppy and in the beginning hard to get used to. The characters are pathetic, at least for awhile. By the end of the book they are your friends, your neighbors, and you wish them all the best.

Safe home, Quoyle.