It’s hard to give a plot summary for this novel because I’m not sure there is a clear plot line. The narrator Marie gives us her life story, an ordinary life with love and loss, births and deaths, set in Brooklyn from her 1920s’ girlhood through WWII, then marriage and family. It’s about what happens to her, her neighbors, her parents and brother. These are ordinary lives but no life is really just ordinary. There’s always more to people than you realize. McDermott’s writing is […]
Yep, that’s a lot of pages…
I’m not quite sure what I was thinking when I chose a 1300+ page book as my first Cannonball Read selection.
Books Everywhere, What Are You Gonna Read
This is a book I had looked forward to since I first heard of it. A book about books and a special book store? Yes, please! To read the rest of my review, follow the link to my blog!
When neighbors stop being polite…
“In the old days, if a builder had a problem, that problem would end up in pieces in the wet concrete: it became part of the building it had tried to obstruct. A bit of calcium was good for the foundations. But those days were gone: the lawless days of the 1980s and ’90s.” (321) The White Tiger was one of my favorite books of the year when I read it back in 2008. For that reason, I knew I would have to eventually get […]
Bumbersnoot! Bumbersnoot Bumbersnoot BUMBERSNOOT!
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Great book and best narration I’ve heard recently!
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