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| Jay, Danielle, Kris, and a man who has hurt many many Cubs fans over the years. Why Tony, why? |
Kris Kris Kris Kris. What can we tell you about our pal Kris Kleindienst besides the fact that it's impossible to remember how to spell her last name? Well, Kris is part owner of the historic, meteoric, anthropomorphic, ginormic, when you get there you feel euphoric...Left Bank Books in St. Louis. Who does she co-own the store with? Oh, just her husband Jay who promised he would send in a piece for this amazing theme we have going here and hasn't come through. Apparently he was too busy speaking at the new Amazon warehouse in Tennessee! Oh, wait that was Obama. Always getting them confused.
On to Ms. Kleindienst's favorite book so far...
My favorite book this year was On Sal Mal Lane. Comparisons to
Dickens are not far off, but I am put in mind more of To Kill a Mockingbird.
The tale chronicles the lives of the varied assortment of families living on
Sal Mal Lane, as experienced particularly through the eyes of the children
there. As the tentative bonds of proximity work their magic in the lives of the
residents, the civil war brewing at the boundaries begin to intrude. It is a
beautiful, lushly and lovingly written account full of a sense of place and
history, but brilliantly universal as well.
I am going to have to read it. Kris has never given me a bum steer on a book. And she'd delightful to book.
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