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Me Before You: The Six Gift Take-away

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Me Before You: Joj We're already in gift-giving season. My favorites are the intangibles. Y esterday was Veteran's Day in the USA, and coincidentally, I had just finished reading Me Before You ., a book about disability. The story doesn't relabel disability as differently-abled . Will Traynor, before his accident, could do almost anything, but he no longer can.   My daughter-in-law tossed the book at me, had knocked it off in a day. But it seemed sophomoric, at first, took me awhile to get into. But when someone else really likes something, you try a little harder. The word in Hollywood is that  Emilia Clarke  of Game of Thrones will star in a coming movie as Louisa Clark, no relation, and Sam Claflin  of Hunger Games is a likely Will Traynor. So we'll keep the spoilers to a bare minimum.    Chick   lit , sure, but much to take away. Me Before You-Jojo Moyes Louisa Clark is an ordinary enough person, a r eally good person, the type of young a...