I just completely panned The Lacuna for being too much a Witness to History book, and I teetered for a moment towards feeling the same about this one, but in the end came out on the other side. The difference: in this book everyone is important because they are connected; in The Lacuna everything wa...
This is a book that tells its story through multiple perspectives. I picked it up because the idea of a story revolving around the man who walked on a tightrope between the rooftops of the Twin Towers was too poetic and full of potential to pass up. What I found was slightly surprising, because the ...
The events we remember in stark relief, the events that change us or change our world, may be the closest we'll ever get to time travel. No matter how far away time takes us from them, we can always, always return.Most Americans who were cognizant on September 11, 2001, remember the day in elaborate...
I gave this book five stars because I found this novel to be completely flawless. The writing, the characters, the pacing, setting…everything was completely perfect and I loved every second I spend reading this novel, even when it broke my heart.
I'm moderately disappointed, to be honest. While the writing is gorgeous, the characters and plots are pretty paint-by-numbers and I felt very little connection to the city I live in, which would seem to've been part of the point. It also bothers me that people consider this a "great post-9/11 nov...
I just finished Let the Great World Spin. WOW, I loved this book. You read it for the words, the thoughts that arise in you as you listen. You do not read this book for the plot. Maybe even parts are implausible, but that does not lessen the impact of the words. You cannot understand every line as y...
What an excellent book!!! Some reviews found the characters to be too common and one-dimesional. I completely disagree! These characters were very well written and with so many layers. Depending on who was in the first person in a given chapter, we were privy to that character's thoughts, which ...
This is my second time reading the book. I'd read it when it first came out a few years ago and was relatively unimpressed by the structure and the story, though I enjoyed the writing behind it. I joined a book club, though, and this is the book for April. So I picked it up again, determined to give...
WHOOT! I'm FINALLY done! This is one of those "epic" pieces of literature that centers around a central turning point. In this case a tight rope walker walking between the Twin Towers, and then spins off from there in great detail; similar to a James Joyce novel where everything is interconnected, o...
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