Book thirty: The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller

Sometimes I am a lazy reader and get annoyed when too many characters are introduced at once. For example, "Sue was Mark's second husband after Bonnie's brother Clyde was hit by a drunk driver on his thirtieth birthday, the driver who turned out to be Penelope's uncle Fred's best friend, Stan, from college..." AGH! Sentences like this make me long for Hemingway's terse prose. You can't help but remember plot points and character names with Hemingway because the big H usually repeats them ten times in a paragraph. For example, "Mike saw the bull. He saw the bull and Mike readied himself to meet it. The bull came closer. Then Mike ran." All that to say that it took me a long time to get into this book. I did enjoy Miller's The Good Mother so I'm not counting her out as an author I'll read just yet. 26 down, plus 4.