I started and finished A Sense of Direction in one evening; I couldn't really stop thinking about it, so I couldn't put it down. I found it...
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Honestly, I thought this was going to be gimmacy-y, cheeky. I couldn't put it down. Read it in one day. More great stuff from Miranda July. So glad I was proved wrong.
This is one of my favorite collections of short stories. Orringer has a keen eye for detail and dares to to create characters that might termed, "unlikable," if one believed in that term in the first place. There's not one clunker here, but standout stories for me are, "When She is Old and I am Famous," "The Isabel Fish" and "The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones." Great stories with great titles.
I bought this book for my eight year old nephew for Christmas. We started to read it that week, but didn't finish. I bought myself a copy the minute I got home. We both loved it! He finished it before I did! Beautiful drawings, prose and just an overall great story.
Orringer's ambitious debut novel hits all the right marks: an epic love story during a horrific war, a well-thought out plot that is executed with lyrical and taut prose. I was reading this during a family visit back east. During our Sunday barbecue I kept sneaking inside to read a few pages, yet I didn't want it to end.
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It Chooses You by Miranda July
S_Ava, February 27, 2012
Honestly, I thought this was going to cheeky and gimmic-y. So glad I was proved wrong. I read it one day. Another great one from Miranda July.It Chooses You by Miranda July
S_Ava, February 27, 2012
Honestly, I thought this was going to be gimmacy-y, cheeky. I couldn't put it down. Read it in one day. More great stuff from Miranda July. So glad I was proved wrong.How to Breathe Underwater: Stories by Julie Orringer
S_Ava, February 27, 2012
This is one of my favorite collections of short stories. Orringer has a keen eye for detail and dares to to create characters that might termed, "unlikable," if one believed in that term in the first place. There's not one clunker here, but standout stories for me are, "When She is Old and I am Famous," "The Isabel Fish" and "The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones." Great stories with great titles.The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
S_Ava, February 7, 2012
I bought this book for my eight year old nephew for Christmas. We started to read it that week, but didn't finish. I bought myself a copy the minute I got home. We both loved it! He finished it before I did! Beautiful drawings, prose and just an overall great story.The Invisible Bridge (Vintage Contemporaries) by Julie Orringer
S_Ava, January 5, 2012
Orringer's ambitious debut novel hits all the right marks: an epic love story during a horrific war, a well-thought out plot that is executed with lyrical and taut prose. I was reading this during a family visit back east. During our Sunday barbecue I kept sneaking inside to read a few pages, yet I didn't want it to end.