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Tim
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The Last Season: A Father, A Son, and a Lifetime of College Football by Stuart Stevens.

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Green Eggs and Ham.

Dr. Seuss's the ABC Book.

Sr. Seuss's the Sleep Book.

And my all time favorite - The Monster at the End of this Book, Starring Love able, Furry Old Grover.

I read these quite a lot actually.

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Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime by Scott Simon. My sister sent a copy to each of her siblings after our mom passed in 2015. I had to let some time pass before picking it up.
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I’m getting a life’s lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU. We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?

Scott Simon sat beside his once gorgeous and vivacious mother, holding her hand, comforting her, and reminiscing about good times and bad as she faced her final days. The result of those hours spent in the hospital is Unforgettable—a deeply moving, at times laugh-out-loud funny memoir about the colorful life of this mother and son. An instant New York Times bestseller, Unforgettable is a spirited, affecting, and personal tribute, and it is a testament to the universal bond between all parents and children.

"In a return to the bighearted storytelling that made him a star NPR correspondent, [Simon] pays full tribute to the ex-showgirl who...taught her only son to be honest, kind, and entertaining. Be assured, tears will fall."--People Magazine
“With UNFORGETTABLE, Simon reveals not the possibilities of social media but its limits. Those 140-character bursts...seem inadequate compared with the skilled unspooling of this memoir.”—The Washington Post

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Oblivion, a short story collection of David Foster Wallace. Unsurprisingly, he was good at this form of writing as well.

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Thing Explainer.

Quick read but lots of drawings to peruse in detail.

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I always have a few books open that I bounce between. Right now I'm in the middle of

American Gods by Neil Gaiman (I hear they're making a TV show???)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (won a Pulitzer for nonfiction)
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse by Elizabeth Johnson (badass)

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Enloying Fiesta by Hemingway, beautiful!

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doe_boy wrote:Thing Explainer.

Quick read but lots of drawings to peruse in detail.
Got that for my nephew for Christmas

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"Don't Look Now" by Daphne du Maurier

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