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I have gone from enjoying Fates and Furies to being engrossed in Fates and Furies!
However, the author has this odd little habit of inserting herself into the story every now and then. She drops parentheses into the middle of a paragraph with "outsider's comments". I'm sure there is a literary term for this and I'm not sure what it is, but I call it annoying. I'm not describing this very well so here are a couple of examples:
At last she nodded and bussed her tray and left; and as this was her last night at the residency, he wouldn't see her again (Her death would be soon and sudden. Ski tumble; embolism.)
Thirty and still a nothing. Kills you slowly, failure. As Sallie would have said, he done been bled out. (Perhaps we love him more like this; humbled)
Its like the author is trying to butt in on my reading experience and I don't really need the help or distraction. It would be like enjoying a nice dinner at a restaurant and having the chef lean over your shoulder and say "milk was substituted for the heavy cream".
To be fair, she doesn't do it often - I had to scroll many pages between instances. As distracting as that little quirk is, this is still the best book I've read in a while.
I have gone from enjoying Fates and Furies to being engrossed in Fates and Furies!
However, the author has this odd little habit of inserting herself into the story every now and then. She drops parentheses into the middle of a paragraph with "outsider's comments". I'm sure there is a literary term for this and I'm not sure what it is, but I call it annoying. I'm not describing this very well so here are a couple of examples:
At last she nodded and bussed her tray and left; and as this was her last night at the residency, he wouldn't see her again (Her death would be soon and sudden. Ski tumble; embolism.)
Thirty and still a nothing. Kills you slowly, failure. As Sallie would have said, he done been bled out. (Perhaps we love him more like this; humbled)
Its like the author is trying to butt in on my reading experience and I don't really need the help or distraction. It would be like enjoying a nice dinner at a restaurant and having the chef lean over your shoulder and say "milk was substituted for the heavy cream".
To be fair, she doesn't do it often - I had to scroll many pages between instances. As distracting as that little quirk is, this is still the best book I've read in a while.
Not sure about the title, but think it was The Invention of Wings. It was the book where Oprah had inserted her comments. I would find it very annoying.
Fates and Furies has been on my TBR but I think I'll move it up to the top.
Still reading Hearts of Atlantis by Stephen King. While it's not great, it's not awful either. Apparently it's actually two novellas and 3 short stories tied together. Didn't know that when I started it and I'm interested in seeing where it goes.
I finished Jamrach's Menagerie last night. I am on my iPad and can't link but the book is gorgeous. I did not entirely lose myself in it due to numerous starts and stops as the result of work being done on the kitchen, but I think it is a lose-yourself kind of book. It is set the in the time of the sailing and whaling ships and is essentially a lost-at-sea story. It reminded me of Swiss Family Robinson in a way, even though much of the action takes place at sea and it is not a children's story. I gave it five stars as I did not see anything that could have been improved upon.
I finished One of Us by Tawni O'Dell. I don't know why I decided to read it but I'm sure glad I did.
It's a very good book and is character driven which is one of the things I love about the book.
This morning I started The Storied Live of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. Oh, my. This is about a small bookstore on an island. It is also the only bookstore on the island. It's wonderful and it is pitched to those of us who love books.
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I had a few false starts -- books that I thought that I'd like... but didn't... and tossed aside.
I had a long stretch of not even bothering to try to read any book.
And this evening I just started His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay.
She's a Canadian writer so there are more reviews on Amazon.ca than there are on Amazon.com, and far more on Goodreads.
I just finished the first chapter. So far, so good.
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I had a few false starts -- books that I thought that I'd like... but didn't... and tossed aside.
I had a long stretch of not even bothering to try to read any book.
And this evening I just started His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay.
She's a Canadian writer so there are more reviews on Amazon.ca than there are on Amazon.com, and far more on Goodreads.
I just finished the first chapter. So far, so good.
I shouldn't have posted about it.
I'll try again. A different book. Another day.
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I shouldn't have posted about it. 
