4/9 - I had trouble with the scenes during and after the bombing. I didn't feel like I could trust Theo's account of what happened, he's young and things were so jumbled I didn't really understand what was happening. I was confused by what happened when Theo said he saw his mother, but that only hal...
But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illuminated in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but...
Not bad, reminded me of infinite jest in a lot of ways (drugs, lonely kid narrator, esoteric-ness and scope) but not as fun. There were funny parts, but I feel a little let down by the ending. Not a bad book by any means, but my immediate reaction isn't very impressed.
I still haven't read the blurb - I need to do that - so I went into this audio book blindly. I'm happy I did because I was so pleasantly surprised that I never knew what was going to happen. In a nutshell, I enjoyed this book a great deal. The characters were so real and complex, even a good number ...
I still haven't read the blurb - I need to do that - so I went into this audio book blindly. I'm happy I did because I was so pleasantly surprised that I never knew what was going to happen. In a nutshell, I enjoyed this book a great deal. The characters were so real and complex, even a good number ...
Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014, so I must admit I read it partly out of curiosity. At nearly eight hundred pages it is quite a marathon, like reading two books back-to-back, so was it worth it, when I have such a long list of books to read? I was...
I would recommend this audiobook more than any other audiobook that I've listened to for someone who is thinking about signing up for audible for the first time and using their free credit, because this performance highlights more than any other why I love audible. The narrator makes the story come...
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