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Middlesex
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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, February 21, 2015
One of the most exquisitely imagined, beautifully written, profoundly compassionate and compelling novels I've encountered. A premise seemingly a bit on the far-fetched side which becomes the story of everyone who has ever felt like they didn't fit into the right boxes--and a reminder of the pitfalls of trying to, of the opportunities found in accepting people for who they are, and of the fact that we are all on a journey of self-discovery in one way or another.
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In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake & the Woods
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Matt Bell
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, February 07, 2015
In language that reads like myth, Bell strikes an unrelenting chord as eerie and haunting as Poe or Cormac McCarthy and weaves a narrative (albeit a loose, non-linear one) as horrifying and disturbing as Stephen King. Under it all is a story of shattering grief, unbearable loss, and the enduring love of what erodes into an untenable and dysfunctional marriage. It is not an easy read, a traditional plot, nor a story that could possibly have a happy, resolved ending. It is allegory--heavy, stylized, rather genius allegory. If that's not your thing, this won't be your kind of read. If you can marvel at a book for the shear brilliance and incredible feat of the writing, you just might love this.
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Olive Kitteridge
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Elizabeth Strout
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, February 07, 2015
Strout does not paint in the big, broad strokes of a large-scale canvas, but in the minute, deftly chosen and intimate details that make each character -- no matter how seemingly inconsequential to the whole of the book -- breathing, real and fantastically flawed human beings. And to see a character like Olive Kitteridge not through the lens of her own first-person narrative, but through the eyes of those who love her, hate her, fear her, misunderstand her, or pity her, seems to transcend the boundaries we experience in most fiction. Olive doesn't feel like a character; she feels like a neighbor. And one you're not likely to think highly of...until you truly understand her. The writing is exquisite, and Strout's ability to present her reader with such an acerbic, even downright unpleasant character, and send the two on a journey through which that character becomes sympathetic to the point of breaking your heart, is deserving of every accolade Olive Kitteridge has brought her.
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Olive Kitteridge
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Elizabeth Strout
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, February 07, 2015
Strout does not paint in the big, broad strokes of a large-scale canvas, but in the minute, deftly chosen and intimate details that make each character -- no matter how seemingly inconsequential to the whole of the book -- breathing, real and fantastically flawed human beings. And to see a character like Olive Kitteridge not through the lens of her own first-person narrative, but through the eyes of those who love her, hate her, fear her, misunderstand her, or pity her, seems to transcend the boundaries we experience in most fiction. Olive doesn't feel like a character; she feels like a neighbor. And one you're not likely to think highly of...until you truly understand her. The writing is exquisite, and Strout's ability to present her reader with such an acerbic, even downright unpleasant character, and send the two on a journey through which that character becomes sympathetic to the point of breaking your heart, is deserving of every accolade Olive Kitteridge has brought her.
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In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake & the Woods
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Matt Bell
finch917
, January 24, 2015
In language that reads like myth, Bell strikes an unrelenting chord as eerie and haunting as Poe or McCarthy and weaves a narrative (albeit a loose, non-linear one) as horrifying and disturbing as King. Under it all is a story of shattering grief, unbearable loss, and the enduring love of what erodes into an untenable and dysfunctional marriage. It is not an easy read, a traditional plot, nor a story that could possibly have a happy, resolved ending. It is allegory--heavy, stylized, rather genius allegory. If that's not your thing, this won't be your kind of read. If you can marvel at a book for the shear brilliance and incredible feat of the writing, you just might love this.
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Olive Kitteridge
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Elizabeth Strout
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, January 23, 2015
Strout does not paint in the big, broad strokes of a large-scale canvas, but in the minute, deftly chosen and intimate details that make each character -- no matter how seemingly inconsequential to the whole of the book -- breathing, real and fantastically flawed human beings. And to see a character like Olive Kitteridge not through the lens of her own first-person narrative, but through the eyes of those who love her, hate her, fear her, misunderstand her, or pity her, seems to transcend the boundaries we experience in most fiction. Olive doesn't feel like a character; she feels like a neighbor. And one you're not likely to think highly of...until you truly understand her. The writing is exquisite, and Strout's ability to present her reader with such an acerbic, even downright unpleasant character, and send the two on a journey through which that character becomes sympathetic to the point of breaking your heart, is deserving of every accolade Olive Kitteridge has brought her.
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