Glaciers
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781780743226 (178074322X)
Publish date: July 4th 2013
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Books About Books,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary
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...
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