M. Miles
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Eleanor and the Impossible
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The first 1/3 of the book was interesting. I liked the characters: telepathic child and father recovering from alcoholism. The rest of the book got repetitive. We already knew what was going to happen because Danny had visions of it about 50 times. T ...more | |
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I’m not a big fan of surrealism, and the puns gave me secondhand embarrassment. The many scenes of people standing in line to talk to obstinate bureaucrats felt heavy handed. The relationship between the two main characters was interesting though. Th ...more |
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This is such a sensual book, full of lights and smells and metaphors. Orange blossoms, Catholic choirs, mules peeing in the street. Venus hanging in the morning sky like “a peeled grape.� I know very little Italian history, so the first few pages had ...more |
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Rejection was outside my comfort zone in terms of graphic imagery, but it was so funny and thought-provoking, I couldn’t put it down. The stories forced me to question my gut reactions to their protagonists. For example, I (along with all the other fe ...more |
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There were parts of this book I loved. I thought it was really spectacular how Batuman created Ivan and Selin’s relationship out of nothing. There’s no “meet cute� between these characters. Ivan grows from one name among many in Selin’s Russian class ...more | |
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