I couldn't stop reading this book, even though it was breaking my heart--the tragedy of Esme's life is so vividly and beautifully rendered. The story is skillfully structured so that even when you think you understand, there's another layer to the enormity of what has happened to Esme. Now that I've finished it, I can't stop thinking about it.
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This intricate and fascinating novel takes place over the course of a few days in a remote Turkish border town. Ka, a Turkish poet exiled in Germany, pays a visit to a beautiful former classmate and becomes embroiled in the plots, paranoia and power plays that take place when a blizzard seals the town off from the outside world. I have never read anything quite like this book (in which even the author eventually becomes a character), but it's one I'll remember for a long time to come.
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This is an entertaining and highly readable story about life at Yale in the 80s, but its real brilliance is in making the narrator, Danny, both so likable and so astonishingly selfish.
Set in Scotland, this gripping police procedural features a fascinating central character: Orla McLeod, an undercover agent haunted by the memory of her murdered father and brother. When a case goes horribly wrong, she has to choose between vengeance for the dead and a promise to the living--the nine-year-old boy she's sworn to protect. This thriller is riveting, and the author never dumbs things down--it requires the reader's full attention.
This intense and disturbing novel shows glimpses of the life of Iris Vegan, an impoverished literature student, as she seeks to make sense of a bizarre employer's strangely sinister requests, a photographer's power over her image, a German novella's compelling force, and a lover's hidden brutality. A brief but powerful book, The Blindfold haunts the reader long after it's over.
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Erin Golsen, August 3, 2008
I couldn't stop reading this book, even though it was breaking my heart--the tragedy of Esme's life is so vividly and beautifully rendered. The story is skillfully structured so that even when you think you understand, there's another layer to the enormity of what has happened to Esme. Now that I've finished it, I can't stop thinking about it.(0 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Erin Golsen, July 8, 2008
This intricate and fascinating novel takes place over the course of a few days in a remote Turkish border town. Ka, a Turkish poet exiled in Germany, pays a visit to a beautiful former classmate and becomes embroiled in the plots, paranoia and power plays that take place when a blizzard seals the town off from the outside world. I have never read anything quite like this book (in which even the author eventually becomes a character), but it's one I'll remember for a long time to come.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
Joe College by Tom Perrotta
Erin Golsen, July 8, 2008
This is an entertaining and highly readable story about life at Yale in the 80s, but its real brilliance is in making the narrator, Danny, both so likable and so astonishingly selfish.No Good Deed by Manda Scott
Erin Golsen, July 7, 2008
Set in Scotland, this gripping police procedural features a fascinating central character: Orla McLeod, an undercover agent haunted by the memory of her murdered father and brother. When a case goes horribly wrong, she has to choose between vengeance for the dead and a promise to the living--the nine-year-old boy she's sworn to protect. This thriller is riveting, and the author never dumbs things down--it requires the reader's full attention.The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt
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1-5 of 7 nextErin Golsen, July 7, 2008
This intense and disturbing novel shows glimpses of the life of Iris Vegan, an impoverished literature student, as she seeks to make sense of a bizarre employer's strangely sinister requests, a photographer's power over her image, a German novella's compelling force, and a lover's hidden brutality. A brief but powerful book, The Blindfold haunts the reader long after it's over.