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Steve’s 2024 Year in Books
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Steve Portigal
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| McCann is a gorgeous writer and most of this book would get 4-stars, but in terms of story, I ended up wondering, well, why did this happen? Why is this the story? Why did I read this? What was the point of this book? Maybe I'm just lowering the rati ...more | |
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| I loved the first half of this book. It made me so incredibly sad, I had to push myself to keep going. It shows a family with a lot of heavy shit going on, and as it goes chapter by chapter, it switches perspective (and narrative style, including one ...more | |
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| It's hard to assign a number to the experience of reading this book. I really loved Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go, and on the anniversary of the latter, the Guardian interview had something about The Buried Giant being part of a - not a trilo ...more | |
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| A book about intergenerational trauma; a Holocaust-escaping family prospers in America, then experiences an early death of a parent, a kidnapping, and so on; the children in the next generation have all sorts of problems, make all sorts of terrible d ...more | |
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| I really was so confused as to what was going on in this book, and it can't seem to manage a consistent narrative tone. Great potential here but it also seemed like I wasted my time reading it. Shrug. ...more | |
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| I've read other phone-book sized books before (stares in Neal Stephenson) but this one was really a tome. It spans a hundreds of years, looking at indigenous and non-indigenous (eg colonizers) involved in logging and trees and forests, following a co ...more | |
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