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Because of this book, I may one day end up in the loony bin

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I don't always get to read the books I want to read first. I got three hardcover books from my wish list for Christmas and have just now, in August, finished the second one. Seriously. I just finished Fannie Flagg's The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion  after starting and stopping it I don't know how many times in between other books. That just happens sometimes. It took a little bit for me to get into it for some reason, but once I did, I wanted to keep reading in order to keep laughing. What may be the funniest part of the whole thing is that when Paige comes over when I am in middle of a book and reading at some point while she is around, she asks me, "what is the book about?" The last time or two I was in middle of one I found ridiculous in one way or another and struggled to explain. This time, it wasn't so much a problem. "There's this woman who didn't find out she was adopted until she was 60. Her adopted mother was kin...