This meme is hosted here, if you should want to participate (which you should *grin*). This week’s question is:
What is the saddest book you have read recently?
I would have to say the saddest book I have read recently was The Red Album of Asbury Park: Remixed by Alex Austin. It wasn’t so much as a “Boo hoo/drama-rific” as other novels, but there was a sense of bittersweet nostalgia in this novel. Feeling so realistic with real human emotion and vulnerability, this novel touches your emotions in a very different way.
The brilliant thing about this novel, is that you didn’t have to have been alive in the 60′s to feel this nagging nostalgia. Born 20 years later, I now yearn to go back to Asbury in the 60′s and be apart of that world – just for a small moment. Austin captured the 60′s in rip-roaring way that there is no denying the talent of this author.
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I have nit heard of this one. Here is mine
Aahhh, nostalgia. I like books that put me in such a mood. I don’t know why, maybe I’m just a kind of book masochist this way, lol! I will have to look into this one.
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Not familiar with this one but could certainly use a little bit of nostalgia. Thanks for a new title.
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