"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."Nicole Krauss could have opened her book with this wonderful line, which doesn't come until a few pages later. Instead, she opens with thoughts from the wonderful old Leo...
I couldn't sleep last night, and so as I finished one novel, I broke open the next straight afterwards. It always takes some time to hit your straps with a new book. The first few paragraphs can jar as you suss out the writer's voice, and shake off the previous one.Last night on First Tuesday Book...
Weirdest thing happened. I watched the movie Extremely loud and incredibly close (after a book by Jonathan Safran Foer) and after it I chose to read History of love from my library without knowing anything about these authors or the subject of the book. While i was reading it, I realised it has the ...
The History of Love is about loneliness. An old man called Leo Gursky lives alone and spends his days deliberately creating chaos in shops and cafes so someone, anyone will remember him if he dies. Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is desperately trying to cure the loneliness of her mother, who has li...
Thank you to the lovely, anonymous man in the Port Credit Starbucks who handed me the napkins, without a word, as I finished this up not an hour ago with tears filling my eyes.It was a perfect moment perfectly matched to this pretty much perfect book.______________________Read this book if:1) you li...
I used to be a much better reader (i.e., would read for long stretches of time instead of the ten minutes before falling asleep that I save for myself now), so maybe the problem I had with this book was mine and not the fault of the book, but I still don't quite know what happened. The intricate plo...
HO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM.I don't know either. I just felt like saying that.Okay, so ... funny story. It took me MORE THAN A MONTH to read this book, which in Brigid-reading-time is like ... forever. Basically I started this book right when I had started college so, I was always super busy and/or...
I was attracted to this book by a follower on Tumblr who, after putting up with incessant gushing over Jonathan Safron Foer's 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' pointed out that Nicole Krauss was his wife, and that this novel had some similarities to Foer's. This is true in some ways. There are two...
If not for the ending which left too many questions unanswered I might have even rated "The History of Love" even five stars. After a little difficulty to immerse myself in the story during the first few chapters, the first switch to a second point of view caught me and tangled my attention firmly i...
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