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Beautiful and engaging blend of Murakami's intellectualism and dream-like complexity with enough mystery and clever pacing to keep me up way too late to find out what will happen next! Or in other words, good think-y stuff matched well with "feet on the ground" action! And truly an original story with characters I want to spend time with.
There were some very interesting and compelling things going on in this little book, and I had read glowing blurbs about it, having received this as part of the monthly "Indiespensable" program.
The good: wonderful sense of place, interesting plot, intriguing working of threads of the story back and forth.
The distractingly not-good: I just could not accept the narrator's voice as that of a young straight man. The floaty, self-indulgent and weepy interior tone kept telling me that either a) I was supposed to be understanding my narrator and protagonist as unlikeable or b) the young author couldn't convey a male voice.
So, a little disappointing after all the hype.
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Tana French's books continue to be completely absorbing and insightful, rich and twisty, full of fascinating and well-developed characters. I never want to leave the world she creates, despite all the human frailty she artfully reveals to us.
This book opened my eyes to all the ways I could use a sketchbook and encouraged me to get the creative juices flowing again. A real gift to my artistic spirit!
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Kate Merriman, January 19, 2012
Beautiful and engaging blend of Murakami's intellectualism and dream-like complexity with enough mystery and clever pacing to keep me up way too late to find out what will happen next! Or in other words, good think-y stuff matched well with "feet on the ground" action! And truly an original story with characters I want to spend time with.Bright before Us (Tin House New Voice) by Katie Arnold-Ratliff
Kate Merriman, May 11, 2011
There were some very interesting and compelling things going on in this little book, and I had read glowing blurbs about it, having received this as part of the monthly "Indiespensable" program.The good: wonderful sense of place, interesting plot, intriguing working of threads of the story back and forth.
The distractingly not-good: I just could not accept the narrator's voice as that of a young straight man. The floaty, self-indulgent and weepy interior tone kept telling me that either a) I was supposed to be understanding my narrator and protagonist as unlikeable or b) the young author couldn't convey a male voice.
So, a little disappointing after all the hype.
(5 of 9 readers found this comment helpful)
Faithful Place by Tana French
Kate Merriman, January 1, 2011
Tana French's books continue to be completely absorbing and insightful, rich and twisty, full of fascinating and well-developed characters. I never want to leave the world she creates, despite all the human frailty she artfully reveals to us.An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers by Danny Gregory
Kate Merriman, January 1, 2010
This book opened my eyes to all the ways I could use a sketchbook and encouraged me to get the creative juices flowing again. A real gift to my artistic spirit!(1 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)