DNF @ 20% I have issues with historical fiction, but that was not my main issue here. My main issue was the writing. If I'm 20% into the book, I should be hooked or loving the language, or be interested in any of the characters. I should not have to wince at over-written descriptions, try to r...
I can honestly say this wasn't a bad book, but it just didn't grab me after the first essay I read by Maggie O'Farrell. I think my main problem was that the book flutters around and we don't stay on a chronological timeline for the author. "I Am, I Am, I Am, Seventeen Brushes of Death" is a memoir...
I am a fan of Maggie O' Farrell Novels and love her descriptive writing. Her story telling is unique and fresh. Her latest book is totally different as it's a memoir that is quirky, interesting, honest, revealing and vivid.Told through 17 near death experiences that the author experienced through...
O'Farrell spans half the globe to give us a fascinating and dramatic look at loss, secrets and relationships in her newest novel. Read what I think were this book's strengths and weaknesses in my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2016/12/31/here-there-and-maybe-nowhere/ (Sorry, Maggie - I can...
I am a fan of Maggie O' Farrell's novels but this book was all over the place for me and I just didn't come to grips with any of the characters or the constant shifts in time and place. I find O' Farrells writing normally quirky and engaging but this book left me feeling frustrated the further alon...
"There is a man..........There is a man and the man is me" What an amazing way to start a novel; so simple, yet so precise. Maggie O'Farrell is a beautiful writer and I was disappointed to find that I hadn't highlighted more of her prose as I read this book. The man is Daniel Sullivan, an American...
About 15 different narrators. About 15 different locations. Time that begins in 2010 and reaches back to 1944 and forward to 2016. These are the intertwined narratives that comprise This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell. The individual chapters envelop me in the perspective being told in the ch...
In her usual arresting style, O'Farrell tells the reader two intertwined stories. The first is the story of a young woman living in postwar London, and the second a contemporary man and woman embarking on parenthood. It is not made clear until nearly two-thirds of the way through the book exactly ho...
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