For me, Bel Canto was a life-changing read. As you may know, “Bel canto” is a term from opera that refers to a style of singing that emphasizes beautiful tone, good phrasing, and a clean articulation of words, popularized in the 19th Century in Europe. An opera motif is a major thematic thread in t...
I'd call it Grade A beach reading--an interesting story, well-constructed and engaging, that holds one's attention. At the same time, it's a little silly and requires some suspension of disbelief. Still, while reading it I thought "What's going to happen next?" rather than "Why am I reading this rat...
A lovely book--anyone can display humanity--and if we are around someone long enough we are bound to connect in some way--whether we are the victim or the perpetrator.
All in all a little too sugar-coated for my taste – the discovered friendships, unlikely loves, the pervading beauty of every damn thing . . . And the purported passion surrounding one of the most important elements, opera, was unconvincing. It felt largely like a vacuous prop to be honest, like rat...
Simply astounding. This was my first Ann Patchett book and I was blown away. She is an incredible author who simply writes beautifully. I wish I could read this story again for the first time.
Bel Canto is an intensely romantic book based on (or inspired by) the events of the 1996 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Peru. But it’s not the trashy sort of book you might expect when you hear “romance” and “hostage crisis” in the same sentence, with a young female captive falling in love with ...
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