This is one of those books. You know the type. Highly praised with considerable hype. Epic and beautiful in many ways. Wonderfully rendered, but perhaps not tightly edited. We Are Not Ourselves seems to be many stories in one, and I'm not convinced this approach was in the best interest of the novel...
We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas, author, Although the illness of Ed Leary is at the heart of this story because he morphs into someone who is no longer himself, the tale is really Eileen Tumulty’s. It explores her early childhood and takes the reader right up to her old age. She was brought up...
original source of my reviewWe Are Not Ourselves is "an epic of small events," David L. Ulin of the LA Times writes. "By that I don't mean its story is insignificant but quotidian: the particular struggles of the day-to-day."This book, in short, is a middle class assimilation story. Eileen Tumulty h...
A very, very long, mostly boring, book about Eileen and her family. Lots of unnecessary words in here.. as if the author had a field day with a thesaurus. I began to hate the book about halfway through. I'm happy it's done
[Thank you to LibraryThing and Simon & Schuster for this advance copy.] We Are Not Ourselves is a stunning novel, and it almost defies belief that it is a debut effort. (Although the publisher does state that he had already put two other novels in a drawer before this one.) It tells the story of t...
3 stars feels a little generous because the first 300 pages I really wanted to give up. All the hype surrounding the book made me doubt myself a little (maybe something really interesting is going to happen in the next 50 pages?) which of course was a mixed decision. The latter half of the book was ...
I knew when I got this book from NetGalley that it was one of the summers’ much-awaited debut novels. However, this was not a light summer beach read. It took me more than a few nights to finish, because at times, it felt like an arduous thing I just had to get through. It was an emotional book, and...
Eileen and Ed are a perfect example of the attraction of opposites. Eileen is a force of nature. Determined, committed, and stubborn, she knows what she wants and does not stop until she achieves it. Ed is the yin to her yang. Where she is forceful, he is unassuming. Where she is aspiring to greater...
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, thank you! This is the story of Eileen and her Irish-American family in New York. Describing several generations from her youth, her marriage to Ed and her son Connell. Life hasn't been easy on E...
Thank you Net Galley and Simon and Schuster for the opportunity to read this book. I received an e-galley in exchange for an honest review. This one was a rather long one and took me several days to get through it. I will finish my review after I have contemplated my thoughts on this novel. I found ...
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