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I started reading this simply because I adore Erdrich's work, and I was pleasantly surprised when I recognized names from her other novels. Erdrich again provides details on the characters' she's encouraged us to love and despise -- while still somehow spinning a whole new story with new personalities within the familiar community.
I was completely riveted by Erdrich's story of the tribe in her series -- I was constantly trying to figure out how her characters were intertwined and connected, and she always found a way to surprise me with her intricate details.
Erdrich pulled me into her world through _Love Medicine_ and _The Beet Queen_, and the deeper I read into the characters' lives in _The Bingo Palace_, the more difficult it was to put the book down. Erdrich brilliantly tells a story we can all relate to, in a very unique way.
This is not your everyday romance novel. By telling us about Henry and Clare's love, their life, their normal joys and struggles as well as those instigated by Henry's genetic disorder that pulls him through time, Niffenegger fosters our own love affair with the couple. She helps us connect with them in ways only expert writers do -- we are able to see that despite our differences, we share so much.
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I picked up this novel because I adore McEwan's _Atonement_; this novel certainly proved itself as well. The time changes that McEwan intertwines throughout the book kept me reading for hours, just wondering how the couple's fateful wedding night might end. The novel simultaneously gives us glimpses into the private lives and thoughts of its characters and insight to England in the early twentieth century. The end was superb -- and in true McEwan fashion, not at all the way I expected it to be.
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ReadingMathTeacher, November 14, 2009
I started reading this simply because I adore Erdrich's work, and I was pleasantly surprised when I recognized names from her other novels. Erdrich again provides details on the characters' she's encouraged us to love and despise -- while still somehow spinning a whole new story with new personalities within the familiar community.Tracks by Louise Erdrich
ReadingMathTeacher, November 14, 2009
I was completely riveted by Erdrich's story of the tribe in her series -- I was constantly trying to figure out how her characters were intertwined and connected, and she always found a way to surprise me with her intricate details.The Bingo Palace (P.S.) by Louise Erdrich
ReadingMathTeacher, November 14, 2009
Erdrich pulled me into her world through _Love Medicine_ and _The Beet Queen_, and the deeper I read into the characters' lives in _The Bingo Palace_, the more difficult it was to put the book down. Erdrich brilliantly tells a story we can all relate to, in a very unique way.The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
ReadingMathTeacher, August 23, 2009
This is not your everyday romance novel. By telling us about Henry and Clare's love, their life, their normal joys and struggles as well as those instigated by Henry's genetic disorder that pulls him through time, Niffenegger fosters our own love affair with the couple. She helps us connect with them in ways only expert writers do -- we are able to see that despite our differences, we share so much.(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
On Chesil Beach: A Novel by Ian McEwan
ReadingMathTeacher, July 20, 2009
I picked up this novel because I adore McEwan's _Atonement_; this novel certainly proved itself as well. The time changes that McEwan intertwines throughout the book kept me reading for hours, just wondering how the couple's fateful wedding night might end. The novel simultaneously gives us glimpses into the private lives and thoughts of its characters and insight to England in the early twentieth century. The end was superb -- and in true McEwan fashion, not at all the way I expected it to be.1-5 of 13next