This book is far better crafted than it appeared to be halfway through. It deftly handles a difficult topic (avoid spoilers, if you can), and manages startlingly incisive comments on finding meaning in life. I do wish there had been a little less tin foil antics and speechifying from the Acting Pr...
This is the funniest/most horrific book I've read in ages. I spent the first 65% of the book laughing like a mad person at the hilarious antics of the Irish Catholic schoolboys who populate this book. Then I spent the next 10% being genuinely appalled. And then I laughed a little bit guiltily up to ...
This is my first installment in my series Les Memorables, books that are not necessary the best books I've read in my life, but books that I still regularly think of. Books that are really memorable. I obviously recommend all books on my Les Memorables shelf! It might not be a surprise to find out...
This book was a solid 4-stars throughout the first two parts. I thought the story and the writing were both very satisfying, and although I felt connected with the characters, I thought the author might not have been going deep enough. Well, parts I and II turned out to be a set-up for part III, c...
4.5, rounded up, though I'd have liked an emotionally crisper ending. In the many reviews I've read, there's not a lot of mention of the novel's structure, which is obvious at times but doesn't feel too lock-step because Murray uses humor to make parallelism entertaining rather than mechanical. The ...
It's such a heartbreaking book... I wonder why I feel it more now on re-read. The children can be gruesomely mean but they're also vulnerable. It's a funny book but it's also deeply sad. What can I say, the world is asymmetric.
Skippy Dies is an extremely enjoyable read. After the title character experiences a mysterious death in the opening sequence, we are thrust backwards in time to the complex tapestry of events leading up to his final moments.Entwined with the story of Skippy are those of his classmates and friends, t...
This is the second time I've done a group read, and as with the first, I find myself sitting here, staring at the screen, entirely unsure what I want to write. I liked Skippy Dies, but I didn't love it. Having no idea what it was about before starting it, this book frequently took veers in direction...
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