This is definitely one of those books that you will only enjoy if you lived in this world. So this is a book for journalists who worked at a newspaper. You go through each chapter learning either about a character who works at the paper or something about the history of the paper and it is all so re...
Great writing but the plot never clicked for me. A little too disjointed I think. In the end I didn't feel as though I knew much more about the characters than when it started.
'The Imperfectionists' is successful not because it engages in the larger issues, but because it establishes a flawed cast as being almost too small for the stage they're given. This is a novel of shortcomings, opportunities missed, vindictiveness, jealousy, blindness to character, regret--but done...
I really wanted to like this book. I had heard so many good things about it and the cover's great. However, I just didn't like any of the characters. Most of them seemed somewhat pathetic and allowed other people to take advantage of them. I just wanted one story to be triumphant or optimistic but ...
The cover of the paperback actually makes you think of the frenzy of the newsroom with the headlined quotes of the reviewers and the pictured stack of tied up newspapers. I thought it was really well designed. The hard cover does not have the same effect since the quotes are missing. Since I have bo...
This book is about the demise of a European newspaper founded by an American. Each chapter gives a brief glimpse of someone who is affiliated with the paper, ranging from the editor-in-chief to an obsessive reader. In between their stories is a history of the newspaper, from its beginning to its e...
As a young adult reader it was a big jump going from "realistic" YA to how realistic really could be written. When I first picked up this book I wasn't sure exactly what to expect and after the first chapter I wasn't sure I would come out being interested in the story, but as I read on I really bega...
Very interesting view of the lives of a newspaper's staff in Rome. We get and first person, inside views of their day to day struggles with trying to keep the paper printing and yet have a functioning a sort of life. Fantastic character's !
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