by Myla Goldberg
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 ...
I adored Bee Season and it was one of the best film adaptations I have seen. So when given the opportunity to read this one, I jumped at it. Goldberg does a fabulous job bringing to life Celia and the horror she feels at her friend, Djuna, disappearing. She blocks the memory and a lie becomes th...
This short novel tickles the mind from the first page to the last. A childhood event impacts the lives of five young girlfriends and is investigated through the eyes of one of them, Celia.She comes from a family that lives by rules and familial distance, painting a picture of relationships that don'...
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