Lately, I feel as if I'm behind on everything. This was my book club's January pick and discussion, which we already had, and only now am I getting around to writing the review on here. *sigh* Anyways, this book was thoroughly enjoyable. No words were minced and the author expects the reader to ma...
I enjoyed parts of the story -- like anecdotes, especially the part about the 'deathless man', but I didn't fully appreciate the story as a whole. I guess I didn't quite understand the subtle nuances which tied everything together. While I didn't see the story as being disjointed, I read it along th...
This book was, disappointingly, only okay. I love the premise--a life reconstructed through folktales, through the stories we tell and don't tell?--and, often, liked the stories themselves, but didn't feel that they ever came together grandly as they should have. The content was strong but, aside fr...
I'm trying so hard to enjoy literary fiction. I really am. I just don't understand most of it, including this book.I understood so little of this book that I'm not even sure how to summarize it. I don't really know what the book is about. I understood the story, but I'm not sure what I was supposed ...
Hello, my children. I am writing this on a pittance of sleep, with my head full of Shakespeare and obnoxious thesis words like ‘perfunctorily,’ so if I don’t make much sense, please forgive me. At any rate, not to be derailed from my goal of reading 70 books this year, I picked a short one for thi...
I think many of the other reviewers before me so I will most likely be only rephrasing or repeating some of the former thoughts.I heard about Tea Obreht's name being mentioned by The New Yorker "as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty". Naturally this made me curious and inter...
yep...I hate this book. It makes me angry that there are these lame excuses for the actions of some of the characters of this book. There is always a choice, be brave or a coward. I felt that most of the characters were cowards, examples: luka, Natalia (only because she used the excuse of the war fo...
This book really felt like a couple of short stories that were patched together with the overarching story of Natalia and her grandfather to create a novel. I liked the stories of the deathless man and the tiger's wife, and how they interwove, but I didn't like Natalia's story at all. You never co...
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I had to admit that it was beautifully written, and from the first page I felt as though I had been cast under a spell by Tea Obreht’s lyrical narrative…but then I found that I could not get invested in the plot. I could read a few pages, but then f...
This rates more than 3 stars. The story was interesting, the ideas also, the characters well drawn, the structure good. Should have made 4 stars but somehow the writing did not quite flow. If this is the first book the author has published then I want more..... I think they will just get better and ...
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