solid, high-level literary fiction concerning the adventures of a 35-year-old Manhattan model past her peak and who has suffered a car accident altering her features. like the later (2010) [b:Visit from the Goon Squad|7331435|A Visit from the Goon Squad|Jennifer Egan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/135...
It's almost impossible to read this book with any sort of objective eye in the year 2013. It was written in the six years leading up to 2001 and released a week after 9/11. To've read it in, say, August 2001 - that would be the ideal. Because it isn't just the 9/11 thing that is prescient but rat...
It's hard to truly describe my feelings about this book. It's not that Jennifer Egan isn't an excellent writer. Quite the opposite actually, she's very good at creating characters with depth and breadth. The problem, for me, was in the writing. This is a massively over-written book. Points that coul...
It's time for a game of Guess Tessa's State of Mind By Reading The Quotes that Stuck Out For Her In This Book:1. "Charlotte understood this with a deep, angry ache: there were two worlds, and in one of them, everything was harder. No one came to you, and if you went to them, you were likely to be pu...
In honour of my new resolution to toss anything that doesn’t grab me in the first 10% or so, here’s another DNF. Now I’m sure this is a deeply worthy affair, covering the themes of identity, how others see us and how we see ourselves. It’s well-written and all that. But it lacked something. Plot, ma...
Excellent book! As I started reading it I was afraid that it gonna be sweet cute bedtime read but fortunately it was much deeper. The plot is quite surprising and well led. The main character is absolutely wonderfully built that's why it gets the highest score. I really loved it :)
I love the premise of a model getting her face smashed in, I've heard good things about this book, and I liked the writing style but I don't care about sexual awakening, fashion, New York life, Mid-western life, ect, ect.I gave up at page 50.
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