by Alexis M. Smith
Isabel lives in Portland, Oregon and works in a library, repairing damaged books. She longs to visit the destinations revealed in their pages. Her daydreams are peopled by memories from her Alaskan childhood, the glaciers that are being lost. Meanwhile, she's just the tiniest bit lonely and lovelorn...
completely relished my reading of Alexis M. Smith’s debut novel Glaciers, a delightful book that took barely two hours to finish. It was a perfect treat in fiction form.Glaciers is all about Alaskan-native Isabel, a twenty-something living in Portland, Oregon who collects relics from the past. But I...
Sweet, and short. I won't remember the plot of this book in a week, but I enjoyed it while reading it. It felt exactly how Portland feels, vague, and hip, and full of treasures.
I am stuck between giving this 2-3 stars.It reads well but calling it a novel for something so 'slight' doesn't seem to do it justice and it does have that clever MFA trick of having the beginning circle onto itself (no spoilers here)It does come across as precious along the veins of Miranda July an...
A brief, yet beautiful novella featuring charming and captivating character sketches. Not much by way of plot, but I was still satisfied with the storytelling and realistic ending. If it were a movie, this would not be the big blockbuster but the sweet surprise of a nice indie film. Enjoy. Edited to...
Delightful. Charming. Delicate. These are the words that first come to mind as I reflect on Glaciers. There's not much substance in these 174 pages, but I was nonetheless happy to have spent the time with them. In many of the novel's short chapters, Alexis M. Smith discusses the small things, the ph...
3 1/2stars such a gentle story filled with longing. It takes place in one day with flashbacks. Very short and easy read at 174 pages.
The publisher compared this to Woolf, Duras, and Rhys? I'm sure even their adolescent scribblings were more learned and erudite than Glaciers. This is not to say the book isn't well written: it definitely is, but it feels too uncertain of itself many times, and at many others it felt like reading an...
Written in a spare, understated style with occasionally stunning imagery, this little novel has a soft voice that transcends a state of yearning for faraway places in geography and time. The recurring description of a postcard purchased in a thrift store ties together the different parts of the sto...
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