The morning after the Feds burned down her house and took her father, Havaa woke from dreams of sea anemones. The moment after I read the opening line of A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena I sensed this was the beginning of a beautiful journey.I was neither exactly right nor dead wrong.For one thing...
This novel deserves at least 6 or 7 stars out of 5. I can't stop thinking about the horrors of Chechnya, a country that I probably would have a hard time finding on a map. The characters, all built of their country's strife are also in some way torn apart by it. This new author, Anthony Marra, creat...
I admired this book more than I loved it. Anthony Marra writes beautifully (although some passages seem a shade overdone) and many sections are very moving. Marra is also a great observer of details. In particular, I liked these moments from early in the book: And now, in the morning, as he tight...
Yet again I am left baffled by the glowing reviews and the hype. This book proved tedious, convoluted and an insomniac's dream.There was no plot, at least not a discernible one for the majority of the book. There are tedious, long-winded entries of characters that end up giving little to the overall...
In 1994, A beautiful girl named Natasha, sat on the floor, reading the definition of life through her sister's Russian medical textbook, Life: a constellation of vital phenomena-organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. I picked this up without reading any synopsis ...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-constellation-of-vital-phenomena-novel.htmlA medical dictionary defines life as "a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation."According to the author, thi...
When my wife finished reading this last week she told me that 5 stars wasn't enough. I wish I could say that I grabbed the still-warm kindle from her hands and started to read, but that would be a lie. What I did was stallI, thinking to myself that her enthusiasm might lead to some unpleasantness if...
I spent more than a week picking up this book and reading a few paragraphs, only to put it down after deciding it was too heavy for me. Finally I decided to sit down and read ten pages before deciding to give up completely. Before I knew it I had read 62 pages, and was so involved in the story tha...
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