Elizabeth Percer
Elizabeth Percer is a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and has twice been honored by the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. She received a B.A. in English from Wellesley and a Ph.D. in arts education from Stanford University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship for the National...
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Elizabeth Percer is a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and has twice been honored by the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. She received a B.A. in English from Wellesley and a Ph.D. in arts education from Stanford University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship for the National Writing Project at UC Berkeley. She lives in California with her family. An Uncommon Education is her first novel, and Ultrasound is her first book of poems. Visit her website at www.elizabethpercer.com
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I liked this book because it was a different perspective on a fairly common coming-of-age story. I've encountered lots of boys only schools with private elite societies (and their bacchanalian parties), but I have yet to read one about girls. The writing was generally good and there were some real...
First few chapters didn't grab me, but it's possible I just wasn't in the right mood. This one seems to have a somber, philosophical tone. I'm putting it back on my shelf for another day.
This wins the award for most boring book I have ever finished. No, seriously. It was awful. Decent writing but oh so pretentious. What was the plot? What was the point? It was like one giant essay of telling. The detached writing style made me cry in agony. Review to come.
I hate writing this kind of review, because honestly, I should be all over a book like this, and it's not the book's fault it didn't click for me. (So far, everyone else on the blog tour has loved it, so definitely don't consider me only!) This is a lovely, quiet book about a girl who latches onto ...
I read only a few pages of this, and the writing style was not to my taste.
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