What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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It was not an easy read and definitely not easy to review. I recommend it for the knowledge value as Toliver referenced over 500 books in this work and even quotes liberally from them.
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Inspector Erlandur and his team take on this cold case with few initial clues as to whom the skeleton might be and why it is buried here. This leads to an examination of events in Iceland during the Second World War, when initially British and then American forces were stationed in the area as part of the Allied effort against Germany.
The mystery of the bones is eventually revealed in a sympathetic and touching manner.
This is a novel that, in my opinion, improved as it progressed. What started out as a reasonably standard, not particularly eloquent crime mystery evolved into a story that was more intense, meaningful and fulfilling. The interplay between the current events, mostly involving Erlandur's family, and the sometimes horrific and heartbreaking events of the war years, created a satisfying novel with atmosphere, depth, empathy and a set of characters worth caring about.
Not quite 4 stars - I will give it 3.5 out of 5.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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The book is divided into three sections. The first section is about an aspiring female author who enters into a relationship with an older award winning author. The second section is about an Iraqi immigrant. The third section shows the older award winning author from the first section doing an interview.
The title is very important. Don't want to go into any spoilers.
This novel reminded me of Philip Roth a bit.
I give this novel 4/5. I definitely recommend it.
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That sounds very interesting- I will add it to my list.rockandroll wrote: ↑24 Jul 2018, 12:11 I just finished "Asymmetry", Lisa Halliday's debut novel. She is a powerful author, great writer.
The book is divided into three sections. The first section is about an aspiring female author who enters into a relationship with an older award winning author. The second section is about an Iraqi immigrant. The third section shows the older award winning author from the first section doing an interview.
The title is very important. Don't want to go into any spoilers.
This novel reminded me of Philip Roth a bit.
I give this novel 4/5. I definitely recommend it.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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A group of tenants investigates the mysteries of their apartment building. There is humor, weird occurrences, references to Scooby-Doo movies, and quite a bit of action, especially towards the end. It gets darker toward the end, but it isn't too scary.
Pronouns: She/Her
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." (Mortimer J. Adler)
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The titular woman of the future is Alathea Hunt, and her story is told in the first person, presented as a series of notes or diary entries, documenting the life of this remarkable girl from conception to the age of sixteen.
Alathea is an unusual and intense girl, not always particularly likable, with plenty to say. She is highly intelligent, athletic and healthy, and is a high achiever at school both academically and in various sports. But she is brash, questioning and challenging, has many visions about what her adult life might be like (her withdrawn mother insisted from the beginning that Alathea would be someone special), and she has little tolerance of others.
And, when she reaches a certain age, she experiments with sex - relentlessly and indiscriminately. It is the extensive and frank sexual content that makes the novel so controversial and distasteful to some.
Alathea's descriptions of her sexual encounters are mostly matter-of-fact, bleak, detailed and anything but titillating. She is mostly emotionally removed from what is happening to her body.
Despite her sexual proclivity, what Alathea wants, and cannot find, is love. She just wants to feel loved, and when she finally feels something that might just be love, she considers it an illness. Ultimately, Alathea scorns boys and the whole male race, except for her father.
Alathea Hunt might be precocious, promiscuous, occasionally intolerant, but at heart she is like every other girl striving to grow up to womanhood, understand life and its challenges, dealing with doubts and trying to understand her place in a world that is still dominated by stupid men.
And certainly, Alathea Hunt is not easily forgettable. She is a literary character that will stay with me for a long time.
I found this novel, written in the 1970s, at the tail end of the first wave of radical feminism, just as relevant in today's #MeToo world.
5 stars out of 5
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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