I have to say one of the best books that I have read recently, besides The Hunger Games, was The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. This book will blow your socks off. The book within the book is so ridiculously good, you wish it were a real book you could run out and read. The book has several different view points: two rather grouchy old men and one young girl. It takes a while to catch on and even figure out what is going on (the first point of view switch really throws you for a loop) in the story. Bits and pieces of a book, The History of Love, the young girl's mother is translating get patched into the book. The two old men are worlds and times apart; however, they both knew each other as young men in Poland before the war. One of these men ended up in New York, the other in South America. Writing is a common link for all of the characters involved, but as the story continues, the threads of each of their stories begin to intertwine and a beautiful picture is formed. The ladies in my salon all agreed, the ending left much to be desired; however, the rest of the work was just jaw droppingly, can't put it down, I want more amazing.
I'm going to leave with a quote from the book that made it into my quote book:
"Even now, all possible feelings do not exist. There are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written, or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom, or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges, and absorbs the impact."
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