Angela's Ashes
Between the craziness of Thanksgiving, physical therapy, and the impending holiday season, it took me nearly a month to read this book, which it really shouldn't have. But when I'm not commuting by train, I have a hard time finding time to just sit and read. Especially with everything else going on. Because of that I ended up reading Angela's Ashes in fits and starts and never really got as absorbed into it as I might have otherwise. Back when I started it, I noted that for a tragedy, the book has a lot of humor in it. Not necessarily laugh out loud humor, but the sort of wry humor that seems to me to be typical of Irish literature. It's an attitude that acknowledges that life is shitty so you have to find your silver linings where you can. For example, this book is full of the death of children. They drop like flies, and Frank himself loses 3 siblings to various sicknesses. One of his classmates loses nearly all of his siblings, but he's okay with