Beautifully written, wonderfully narrated, filled with keen observations and credible interior monologues. Abandoned because it's too painful to watch the broken people and learn about the things that broke them. "The Nix" is the first book of my "20 for 20 reading Size Matterschallenge" :To Rea...
2.5 (it was okay) for me but I'll bump it up to a 3 because I'm such a sweetheart (said no one ever). This is the story of a once famous family who were shamed when their patriarch screws up on national tv and exposes himself for a fraud. Except they’re not all frauds but try telling that to anyon...
AudibleHonestly, this book has EVERYTHING I love: a COMPLICATED family history and how the old secrets that were locked behind ambiguous shrugs and half answers and vague abstractions and aphorisms come to light, bit by bit until all necessary fragments of an enigmatic jigsaw are put together. The...
This is another one of those that I should have reviewed sooner after finishing it. It's been a couple weeks, and my memories are fuzzier. Plus, I took a break while listening to the book, so my listening experience was pretty stretched out.So, what can I say about the story without revealing too mu...
Not having time to sit and read today, I was looking for some background noise that would count toward my 2013 reading goal. The name of the book was familiar to me, thanks to Goodreads, but I think I had discounted it after having read the summary and a few reviews. Still, it was available from the...
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