My state legislators have spent the past session ignoring the compelling problems such as unemployment, foreclosures, steep funding cuts to schools, and lack of access to health care, issues that make lives difficult every day. Instead they addressed the non-problem of domestic unions. An amendment ...
One of the greatest. Simply, one of the greatest. My feelings for this book (I view it as a two-volume novel, as Anderson intended) render me almost speechless.
When we meet young Octavian at the beginning of the novel we find he and his mother living a privileged life at the shadowy Novanglian College of Lucidity. He is dressed in silks, schooled in the classics, and is an accomplished violinist. What is unusual about this arrangement is that Octavian is...
This was my second go at this novel, having given up after 50 pages on my first try because I found the voice distancing and the pacing incredibly slow.I still found the voice distancing and the pacing incredibly slow, but I think the book's good points outweigh the bad. Viewing the American Revolut...
This one had a lot of good buzz, but ultimately it fell a bit flat for me. It's well written, but I had trouble caring about anything and the story seemed to have little point. It doesn't help that the narration of the character's life changes halfway through.
I am always up for history, especially if it's presented from an unusual viewpoint or in a fresh manner. I thought this would be a fairly conventional and thus mildly tedious slave-comes-of-age, resists-tyranny thing. But there was that raver...surely someone who bothers to come to LT won't be that ...
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