Final Thoughts - Water for Elephants
Quick read. Light read. A nice distraction at a time when I really needed one. Well-researched and thorough; loved the historical pictures.
Final Thoughts on Alias Grace
The short version: I can’t believe the crazy bitch got off*.
The long version: I like period pieces. I have a thing for historical medicine and -psychiatry. I’m a sucker for a well-told crime piece. Toss in some sex and violence, and you’d think this would be a shoe-in for my favorite book so far this year. Except it wasn’t. At all. I don’t know what about this book didn’t do it for me, but reading it felt like a chore. As I told Mer as I was finishing the last chapter: “This is what it must feel like for people who don’t love to read.”
*Spoiler? Not really. It’s (loosely) based on a true story, after all.
“Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.”
“Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.”
“One day it was still cold and spring, with gusting showers and chilly white clouds remote above the glacial blue of the lake; then suddenly the daffodils withered, the tulips burst open and turned inside out as if yawning, then dropped their petals.”
“One day it was still cold and spring, with gusting showers and chilly white clouds remote above the glacial blue of the lake; then suddenly the daffodils withered, the tulips burst open and turned inside out as if yawning, then dropped their petals.”
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Alias Grace (started slow, but I’m into it) and Cleopatra’s Daughter (impulse buy, and I’m really digging it.)
Further thought on Alias Grace
Still having troubles with Grace’s ramblings, but beginning to really enjoy the story from the doctor’s point of view. Hoping that’s enough to carry through the next 400 pages!
“Dora is stout and pudding-faced, with a small downturned mouth like that of a disappointed baby.”
