I don't want to discourage others from reading this, but 50-odd pages in, it was definitely not working for me. I am not a fan of books with alternating past/present timelines, where the present-day character uncovers the past character's story: this tends to result in two half-baked storylines, whe...
Cue the Halleluia chorus, I have finally finished this book. I had to abandon the audiobook and read it on my ereader. I just didn't like it though maybe I would have liked it better if it was about half the length. There was just so much meandering philosophical stuff, especially at the end that...
Beautiful, sweeping, elegiac. As in My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki seamlessly weaves together the parallel journeys of women an ocean apart, giving them each the painful specificity of their own geographies and struggles, but allowing the universality of their experiences to shine through (and reflect...
A Tale for the Time Being is like one of those assorted platters you get in restaurants - there is a little bit of everything but not everything is necessarily appealing. Unlike dining, however, I'm not at the liberty to pick and choose here. Consequently, my reaction to the overall book is kind of ...
When I first began to listen to this book, I was disappointed and gave up. Thankfully, I tried again a short time later because this author read her own book, and she does the most amazing job with the different voices and varied expressions of the characters. It is not even necessary to know the na...
Two storylines. No three. No two. One? … Quantum mechanics. Metafiction. Superpowers. Hello Kitty. Cats. Zen Buddhist Nuns. Ghosts. Dot-coms. Philosophy. WWII. 9/11. What am I missing? What am I missing? A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliant novel in that way that books can sometime be brillian...
Nao and ZenEvery being that exists in the entire world is linked together as moments in time, and at the same time they exist as individual moments of time. Because all moments are the time being, they are your time being. ...
Keeping this short. The first chapter in I thought I might have made a mistake, "but bye the ticket take the ride." Right? And what a ride it was. There were diaries from the past, movements from the now, dreams of the future. Throw in some zen Buddhist teaching along with quantum mechanics many wo...
I haven't read Ruth Ozeki's first book, "My Year of Meats," but I certainly will now. Her writing is beautiful and completely engaging. Although the first few moments of the book had me wondering about what I had gotten myself into as Nao introduced herself in her diary, but I kept going and I am re...
This novel is wholly original, yet it also reminded me of two of my favorite books in the recent past -- Haruki Murakami's [b:1Q84|10357575|1Q84 |Haruki Murakami|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1359439026s/10357575.jpg|18160093] and David Mitchell's [b:Cloud Atlas|49628|Cloud Atlas|David ...
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