The Tiger's Wife
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594135132 (1594135134)
Publish date: November 1st 2011
Publisher: Large Print Press
Pages no: 523
Edition language: English
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...
8 years ago
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