Before reading The Sandcastle Girls I knew almost nothing about the massacre that took place almost unnoticed by the rest of the world in Armenian in 1915. Bohjalian tells the story by alternating between a contemporary (female) narrator and her grandmother as a young woman, which gets a bit con...
"The Light in the Ruins" was my first experience reading Chris Bohjalian. I don't normally read historical fiction or murder mysteries, and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the writing. Bohjalian's evocative sentences immersed me in his fictional Italy and I found the plot fairly in...
While the ratings at beginning of this book said edge of your seat chilling horror book, I was quite disappointed. While the novel itself was consistent, and came together rather well, the ending was very poor. I found the plot to be very predictable, and was not on the edge of my seat can't put ...
Absolutely amazing. I had forgotten how incredible an author Chris Bohjalian is. It is gorgeous, and tragic, and feminist, and deeply felt.Review:"Superb. . . .Fans of Bohjalian's 11 other novels (including Midwives) know to expect the unexpected and, thanks to his creativity and cunning, readers...
I wrote this review below, and then before posting it, I realized how negative it sounds, so please let me start this by saying: The book was a solid 4-star book, one that I will think about long after I turned the last page....a book with a huge WOW factor.....then let the remainder of the revi...
No matter how many Chris Bohjalian books I read, he always seems to have more. Like his most famous book, Midwives, this one concerns a single tragic incident (here the shooting of a father by his own daughter), and then builds a story around the question of intent (did the daughter shoot her fa...
I’ve found so much to discuss from this book and so let me start with a general review so that I can make the remainder a huge spoiler alert....This is the third Chris Bohjalian Book I’ve read and while I’ve enjoyed the other two, this one is my favourite. He’s taken a subject that is sensitive a...
A Selection of Barnes & Noble RecommendsIn Chris Bohjalian's astonishing novel, nothing is what it at first seems. Not the bucolic Vermont back roads college sophomore Laurel Estabrook likes to bike. Not the savage assault she suffers toward the end of one of her rides. And certainly not Bobbie C...
2.5 stars. This book had enough momentum to keep me going to the end...and then I just felt dissatisfied. It felt kind of patchworked to me, and toward the end I realized WHY the author made it patchwork....and then felt like the ending was way to predictable.Patch #1 could have been a stand alon...
Chris Bohjalian and his wife moved from New York City to Lincoln, Vermont, population 975, in 1986, and he wrote a weekly column for the Burlington Free Press from 1992 to 2004. This book compiles some of these columns and longer feature pieces he wrote for the Boston Globe. I have a special in...
"The Law of Similars" is an astonishing novel about the hardships Leland Fowler faces when he loses his wife in a car crash, leaving him with grief and his young daughter. The most pleasurable aspect of this book is definitely the character development of Leland. Chris Bohjalian develops Lelan...
With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional family–the ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after their twin daughters died in a flash flood, Terry an...
In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna ...
Not kidding, this is totally legit. When my English teacher, Ms. Gagne, first told me that, I had never heard of Gilligan’s Island. But she explained to me it was an old sitcom, so I looked it up and watched it on YouTube. It’s from the really early days of TV: the 1960s. The first year, they did...
I’ve been riding for three years, and so I was due. I was cantering in a rutted field dotted with spindly apple trees and a few boulders the size of Volkswagens, and one second the horse and I were paralleling a fence by a road, and the next I was on the ground looking up at him as he snitched le...
She would either use her laptop computer or my cell phone, and she would send e-mails or texts to my grandmother and pretend they were from me. At first, she would need to ask me questions: she would want to know the names of my friends at school or the girls in dance class. I was supposed to giv...