One of the most outstanding, beautiful and memorable books I've read in a long time, and it is a book about the Iraq war written by a veteran of that war. It stands alongside "Matterhorn" and "The Things They Carried" for me, and that is high praise. Superb writing: poetic and surprising and challen...
Giving the author the benefit of the doubt, I almost didn't give 5 stars because the ending felt loose to me. Then I asked, what would make it 5 stars, and I realized: nothing. Beautiful and poetic prose (and I hate poetry) with stream of consciousness rants, "real" characters.Hoping for more from t...
As I mentioned somewhere else: this is a book that's trying very hard. Laura Miller from Salon, whose views I tend to disagree with, quit on it; she cited this sentence: "While we slept the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer." I think she picked a particularly questionable sen...
An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hailed as a modern classic.Everywhere John looks, he sees Murph.He flinches when cars drive past. His fingers clasp around the rifle he hasn't held for months. Wide-eyed...
UPDATE 11/30/2012: The Yellow Birds wins the 2012 Guardian First Book Award!Rating: 4.75* of five The Book Description: "The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Priv...
"THE WAR TRIED to kill us in the spring. As green greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into he windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war...
Ok the only reason I requested this was to read the first few chapters of the Diviners by Libba Bray....but there were alot of other sneak peaks in here that I found very interesting and now I have a ton more book on hold at the library...great... :)
Books that I want to read/look interesting: The Dog StarsThrone of Glass - Got the ARC! The Last Dragonslayer - Got the ARC! OriginJohn Saturnall's Feast - Got the ARC! The DivinersThe Other NormalsIn Sunlight and in Shadow - Got the ARC! Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook ...
BEA Buzz Book is a collection of excerpts on galleys that was featured in the last BookExpo America. It contained atleast 30 excerpts ranged from various kinds of Debuts, Non-Fiction, YA, Children, Adult, Memoirs, Mystery and General Fiction. Along with it was publisher's information after every end...
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