The pile - on my nightstand - is actually shrinking!!

So I finished Atonement - and really loved it!! What a compelling - and well told story! I tried to skim but couldn't - the eloquent language and the turns of phrases were riveting:

"Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations." This is pretty profound - and to realize that it's a universal thought!! (Here I thought I was the only one who got sucked back into being my old self when I went back home each summer!)

And this one:

"Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time." Do we all identify with this thought??

And:

"...and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune." Ah, youth!!

And finally:

"It was a chilly sensation, growing up." That's certainly one way of looking at it!

But I'm a little unclear on the end - I admit I was a bit groggy when I finally finished it - stayed up late to do so - and did Robbie and Cecilia both die? I couldn't quite follow her internal conversations about the various "drafts."

Someone fill me in!

I'm reading a David Baldacci novel called Wish You Well. It's a little "cheesy" but a good friend recommended it - and I want to at least have the story line down when she asks me about it.

I skimmed it but need more details to flesh it out.

So, what is everyone else reading??