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The Dreamers – Wait, What?

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

May 18, 2019 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

A mysterious sleeping sickness hits a small town in California. This is the first act of an apocalyptic novel that doesn’t quite get off the ground, or at least, doesn’t get off the ground in the way I have come to expect from an apocalyptic novel. I couldn’t put this down and read the whole thing in two days because I was excited to see what happened.  I picked it up to begin with because the front cover has praise from Emily St. John Mandel, the writer of “Station Eleven,” an excellent apocalyptic novel. That might have prejudiced me though. […]

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5/18/2019 | ardaigle's CBR11 Review No:20 |
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“The things that could have happened but did not are just as crucial to a life as all the things that do.”

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

March 20, 2019 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

This is the second book by Karen Thompson Walker (the first being The Age of Miracles), whereupon finishing the book, I was unsure how I felt and needed to sit with the story for a while. With TAOM, there was a lot to like — interesting premise, selfish tween narrator, fascinating vignettes of the day to day life that we take advantage of — but I always felt that maybe the book was a bit too much like “literary fiction” to be believed as the words and thoughts of a middle schooler. The Dreamers has much the same feeling. I […]

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3/20/2019 | scootsa1000's CBR11 Review No:13 |
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You are getting very, very sleepy

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

February 23, 2019 by yesknopemaybe 3 Comments

This book was a bit of a mixed bag. On one hand, I could hardly put it down and the lyricism was mesmerizing. On the other hand, it kind of went nowhere with the plot and left me wanting more and not in a good way. I kept waiting and waiting for something new to happen and it never really did. And yet, parts of it were super compelling. I guess I’d recommend this to readers who love prose and setting and are ok with things light on plot and character development. The premise of the story is that one […]

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