by Rita Leganski
This is a really neat story, kind of an adult fairy tale, life lessons type book. I like how the good and bad of people, life, religions, societies, social classes are shown. The main point in my opinion is acceptance, forgiveness and facing the truth.Bonaventure would come to know that life is no...
review from: http://thefaultinourblogs.blogspot.comGod, this book had me up all night reading. It starts out with all the necessary parts for a mind-blowing book. I was SO enthralled. I loooooved it until about three quarters of the way through. Then, I kind of realized that the predominant theme wa...
4 ½ starsThis was such a unique and enchanting story on love, loss and how guilt over past mistakes can choke the life out of the present. The writing has an ethereal quality to it and it’s not a book to be rushed through, but instead to be savoured and enjoyed.I absolutely loved the setting of New ...
4 ½ starsThis was such a unique and enchanting story on love, loss and how guilt over past mistakes can choke the life out of the present. The writing has an ethereal quality to it and it’s not a book to be rushed through, but instead to be savoured and enjoyed.I absolutely loved the setting of New ...
Nope. Nope, nope. Too much religion for me. Lovely writing though. But I just can't do this. This book is going to make me relapse into another migraine. D.N.F.
Imagine hearing the flap of a butterfly wing, the descent of a falling tear, the color of orange. Such is the gift born to Bonaventure Arrow. Conceived in love and delivered in tragedy, his ability to hear beyond the realm of possible and inability to speak comes with its own challenges and responsi...
Set in New Orleans and surrounding areas from 1949 - 1957, this debut novel tells the story of one Bonaventure Arrow, his widowed mother Dancy, his grandmothers Letice and Adelaide, his dead father William, the local healer Trinidad, and a man known only as the Wanderer. (The cast might seem huge b...
This is a book that is impossible to read quickly. Every sentence needs to be ingested as you would a favourite desert that is meant to be savoured. I dare you not to fall in love with young Bonaventure Arrow, whose innocence and kindness comes across on every page. So, so good.
(UPDATED - 7/11/13 - see link at bottom)The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William FaulknerIt is this notion, of the past steering the present away from a true course, that drives the narrative in The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow, and in at least one way, it is the past...
I tried twice to get into this book, but it just wasn't for me. The writing kept rambling on and I lost interest so many times. I had high hopes for this one, but in the end it sadly wasn't the book that I wanted it to be.
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