by Rebecca Makkai
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.
Chicago-based writer Rebecca Makkai has written various short fiction stories for which she has been awarded with the Best American Short Stories for 4 consecutive years since 2008. The Borrower is her first novel. http://rebeccamakkai.com/The Borrower tells the story of Ian Drake and Lucy Hull. Luc...
Nachdem ich die Leseprobe von "Ausgeliehen" gelesen hatte, wusste ich nicht so richtig, was ich davon halten sollte. Das Buch hatte mich noch nicht wirklich gepackt, ich fand es aber auch nicht uninteressant.Da ich selbst Bibliothekarin werden möchte und eine Hauptperson eine Bibliothekarin war, fre...
A children's librarian sort of kidnaps a young library patron, with sort of good intentions. I think her intentions aren't sitting right with me - I just never was convinced she was justified in her actions. And she sort of bemoaned her situation throughout, but it was hard to feel sympathetic, so t...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's very well written. There are occasionally very short sections written in the style of a beloved children's book (e.g. Goodnight Moon) that are brilliantly done.This was obviously written by someone who loves books and that comes through very clearly. The story ...
There was a lot in this book that didn't make sense but that didn't really take away the pleasure of it. I usually have a hard time with books that feature kids but Ian Drake was utterly charming and I found myself, like the protagonist just wanting to save him from anything that might squash his c...
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