Attempt #7: (This is going to be a long review because I have too many things to say. I just hope it's coherent.) Have you ever sat in a dark room listening to an intricate piece of music (like Sergey Rachmaninoff's 'Tears') and experienced a deep-seated sadness when the last note died off?? Rea...
I have listened to half of this book. I dislike it. It is contrived and unbelievable. The book tries to do too much, and thus does nothing well. The characters do not pull you in; they stay there flat between the pages of the book. IF you decide you DO want to read it, do not pick the audiobook narr...
Beautifully crafted prose permeates the opening chapters. The story is set in Malaysia, where a judge is retiring, because she is beginning to suffer from dementia and memory loss. "For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past...
All the bad writing habits from the first book has not been un-learnt and have been carried over to the second book. How much orientalism can one book take before it collapses on its own breathlessness on another cliché? Why hasn't any editor taken a heavy pen and do his/her job to make this less "T...
This is an atmospheric novel with what might be one of my favorite heroines ever, a complicated, articulated, damaged-yet-hopeful woman who captivated me from the first page. Beginning in the 1960s or '70s (I'm not entirely sure, the novel is told by Judge Teoh Yun Ling, one of Malaysia's first fem...
Tough review incoming! I don't even know where to start. There were a lot of things I liked about The Garden of Evening Mists, but there were also some things that really annoyed me. If this review seems a little disjointed as you read it, that's because it is. I had a tough time organizing my thoug...
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