The Borrower
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099538127 (0099538121)
Publish date: July 5th 2012
Publisher: Windmill Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Travel,
Humor,
Writing,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
Books About Books,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Road Trip
It's not everyday you run across a main character in a book that is a child librarian, which this book had. Unfortunately, Lucy, annoyed the heck out of me. I can't really put my finger on what exactly it was that annoyed me the most about her, but I really liked Ian, the other character. I also l...
When I was young and had just gotten in trouble for punching my brother or something because he'd done something to annoy me, my mother used to tell me, "Two wrongs don't make a right." This little piece of aphoristic wisdom was constantly in my mind as I read Rebecca Makkai's The Borrower. In Makka...
Lucy Hull is twenty-six and unmarried, a children's librarian in a fictional Hannibal, Missouri. The only child of a Russian immigrant father and a Jewish American mother, Lucy grew up in Chicago, bookish, very slightly rebellious, the inheritor of genetic guilt on both sides of the family. Always a...
So I have conflicting feelings about this book. I really liked its politics and I enjoyed the cute-sy imitations of children's books throughout. I liked the idea of the main character (a 26 year old English major from college who works at a small town library because she doesn't know what else to ...
It's not every day you see a children's librarian as a protagonist in a novel. Clever and most enjoyable.
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