The False Friend
by:
Myla Goldberg (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385527217 (0385527217)
Publish date: October 5th 2010
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
This was a very clever idea not well executed. The entirety of the book appears to be building towards something. We are slowly piecing together (way too slowly, I admit, but hey, I can forgive slow burns if they make it to the point where they become fascinating) what on earth happened, and there...
I don't think this book deserves the low ratings it has been getting. True, it is not the brilliance of BEE SEASON, but it was a solid effort at a memory novel, harking back to the tween years of girl bullying. Myla Goldberg is sort of connoisseur of memory, constantly finding a way to describe thos...
Oh, this started so well.A woman is suddenly and literally struck by the memory of what actually happened to her childhood friend and races home to spread the truth. No one believes her, and she starts to wonder if she can believe herself.Fantastic, right? The beginning and the epilogue are quite go...
In February, I read Bee Season for my library discussion group. While it wasn't a bad read, it wasn't very memorable.Which is demonstrated by the fact that in finding this in the catalogue, my thought process went something like, Goldberg, Goldberg, that sounds familiar...but where from?Didn't pick ...
Ugh. There was absolutely nothing redeeming about this book. The writing was masturbatory (Goldberg simply spews all over the reader in an attempt to be "literary"; instead it is just overwritten garbage); the story was dumb (girls are mean as kids...this does not traumatize them as adults); the ...
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