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That's Kafka for you. How he manages to pull off a man becoming a cockroach as realistic is mind boggling, but he does it all the same.

"Who is John Gault?" - by Ayn Rand in her book, Atlas Shrugged "Mrs. Mooney was a butcher's daughter."- by James Joyce in his short story, The Boarding House "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." -by Franz...

It sounds so familiar...I went through a stint of WWII history fiction stories back in high school and read loads of them. The cover stands out in my mind as well...something "...song" maybe? Hopefully the title will jump out at me. If so, I'll forward it along.

Ha! I set myself up for that one completely, didn't I? Serves me right. Much thanks for the welcome.

I don't know about reading while bathing...I'm not much for taking baths anyway. However, being a florida bound girl with eternal sunshine, I do love to take my wonderfully large raft with cup holders and extendable tray out on the pool, cozy myself up on it, and grab a right thick book for a...

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke is hereby nominated, er, suggested. I picked it the day after New Year's mostly because it was marked half off and the title sort of jumped out at me. I didn't even bother with the usual blurb, thinking it to...