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The Moon in Deep Winter
by Lee Polevoi

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Kindle Edition published 2008-01-10
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This literary thriller revolves around Parker Sloane. When he returns from a dismal foray into third-world cash-smuggling to his childhood home in the woods of New England, it seems he’s seeing his country and his blended stepfamily for the first time—and finding both just as twitchy, desperate, paranoid and unpredictable as the underworld types he thought he’d escaped.

Before he can even unpack, Parker goes head-to-head with his relatives—his tyrannical stepfather, seething younger brother, newly evangelical mother, and his alluring younger half-sister Rita—and with the demons they never exorcised.

Delicately but disastrously, Parker attempts to keep his family from imploding, unaware that they have their own plans for escape. The Moon in Deep Winter combines the dark comedy of the Coen brothers with the doomed lyricism of Denis Johnson, creating an airtight world of homicidal family dysfunction.
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« on: March 13, 2009, 10:33:06 AM »

The bloom is starting to wear off now. I am really liking it. However, I need to develop some way of moving about the thing without accidently turning pages. My only frustration so far. I have many, many (free) classics on it, so my credit card is safe.
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2009, 10:35:13 AM »

Keep after it, it will come. Do you use a cover? It gives a little more room to hold without accidentally hitting a page button.
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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2009, 10:37:43 AM »

I very very seldom hit the page buttons accidentally any more.  I pick it up by the bottom, the top and by the little strip between the screen and the scroll bar.  And I have a cover, it does help.  I also try to always set it to sleep before closing the cover.  Keep practicing and it will come.

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« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2009, 10:50:57 AM »

It came with a cover (used). I have learned to hold the corners when reading. It is the other times when I go cro-magnun on it. It is definitely a one-d-ten-t error.
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« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2009, 10:53:56 AM »

Yes, it's the picking up and putting down when I used to do it.  You'll get in the habit!

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« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2009, 11:11:19 AM »

True dat.
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« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2009, 11:15:05 AM »

It gets easier!  As Betsy said, get into the habit of putting it to sleep any time that you are going to put it down.  It doesn't take very long to wake back up and that's less hassle than looking for "What page was I on?".
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« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2009, 04:29:41 PM »

You will get used to it really soon Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2010, 03:13:29 PM »

It gets easier!  As Betsy said, get into the habit of putting it to sleep any time that you are going to put it down.  It doesn't take very long to wake back up and that's less hassle than looking for "What page was I on?".

Yup, good way to put it.
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« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2010, 02:51:57 AM »

I have a tendency to fall asleep with my thumb on the next page button!  Knowing this I try to remember to bookmark the page I start on when I begin reading at night, this has helped to at least get back to where I started.
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« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 07:24:17 PM »

pasvorto: what do you think now after almost 10 months
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