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If you actually read my reviews regularly (hi mom), you may have noticed that I'm not writing reviews regularly. I've been finding it difficult lately. You see, more than five years ago I began working part-time so that I could focus on being a writer. At the time I had a nearly completed novel and ...
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/86546194843/in-the-wake-by-per-pettersonI find nothing pretentious or false in a Per Petterson novel. At least in the first two I have read thus far. To handle grief in the most tragic sense of it and bring it off in a believable tale of circuitous events all a part of...
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/86304623548/out-stealing-horses-by-per-pettersonJust a marvelous book, paced so lovely, and the telling of the tale so interesting to me. The back and forth between the past and the present accomplished so adroitly that I was simply amazed at Petterson’s talent I had pr...
This is a strong narrative and as smoothly written as a rolling, snowy landscape. The protaganist, Trond, moves to a cabin in the woods to be alone and reflect on his life after retiring and losing his wife and sister. The action and ruminations of the book center on a summer Trond spent with his fa...
Read this in Norwegian (one of my first attempts) but still couldn't put it down. Deceptively simple prose conceals a story of great emotional complexity. "Coming of age" is the pat description, but that doesn't do it justice.
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