Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017--Villa de Leyva, Colombia
I finished reading The Best Man
by Richard Peck. It is actually categorized as adolescent literature,
but so much young adult fiction is now popular even with adults. I read
a good review of it somewhere--probably in TIME or Entertainment Weekly
where I read book reviews regularly and added it to my list of books to
download from the library. It's been on a wait list for months, but it
was available recently. I enjoyed the story which is told from the
point of view of a young boy from the time he is 6 until he is about
14. I laughed a number of times. One of the first stories where he is
dressed in too-tight blue velvet pants to be the ring-bearer for a
wedding, splits the rear open trying to go down the first step and
eventually has to go down the steps backwards with his rear showing
through the tear is hilarious. Anyway, it is a quick read and seems
pretty true to what life is like in elementary and middle schools
today. I gave it 4 stars out of 5.
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