I will add a caveat to my review—I rated this on the high side to compensate for the fact that I would have given the audiobook a 3. While I generally love listening, especially when the author (or anyone British, honestly) reads to me, I don't think this book lent itself to that form. The writing w...
Jenny Offill's second novel is written in a similar piecework style, stringing vignettes and observations together and creating a narrative that is unsettling and familiar. Lizzie is a librarian at a University and used to mentally diagnosing her patrons, observing their trajectories from behind t...
I just spent the last hour and thirty four minutes reading the entirety of a novel that left me unsettled, sad, and impressed. The text is primarily made up of short paragraphs, thoughts really, that include references and quotes and are somewhat a stream of consciousness but taking a form that is...
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill is a short novel that provides glimpses that, taken together, form a life. It is the story of a marriage through its ups and down as seen through the eyes of “the wife” - no name, just the wife. The book has a unique writing style that settles into a lyrical rhyt...
Two stars for the first half, four stars for the second, so I'll go with three overall. I was deeply ambivalent about the first 50 pages or so but found the second half to be genuinely moving.
Our narrator of this adorable tale wants a pet more than anything in the world, and the only pet that meets her mother's qualifications is the sloth. After she has Sparky mailed to her, she just wants people to love him as much as she does. Thus she makes several failed attempts at teaching Sparky t...
PET SLOTH!! A little girl keeps begging her mother for a pet. Her mother's pet requirements are simple: it mustn't need to be walked, or bathed, or fed. The library holds the answer: Soon the little girl gets her new pet sloth, Sparky, in the mail. Admittedly, Sparky isn't the ...
Sloths are adorable, but they are not impressive pets. They don't do tricks. They don't do much of anything. But unconditional love is always good. And the art is charming.Library copy.
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