Two stars for now. It starts off very, very slowly. Agonizingly slow. I love dystopia novels so I will give it another read in a few months. The idea of women escaping a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world to create a conclave is intriguing.[return][return]--I re-read the entire novel in May of...
I loved this book for its gorgeous, meticulous writing despite one or two truck-sized holes in the world-building (why exactly were people forced to live in the cities, eating only imported canned foods when clearly there was at least some farmable, workable land, etc.). But the writing, oh, the ...
You can't help but think of Atwood's Handmaid's Tale (which I loved many years ago) when you read the description. So I wanted to like this. But something with the narrative voice left me disengaged rather than caught up in the story. Yes it brought up important issues: control of female repr...
What was beautiful about this book is the loss. Particularly the void inside of Suze when she loses her twin and what she turns to to make her feel again. What moved me is the gorgeous writing used to describe the relationship Suze had with her twin. "Playgroup was a minefield. Nobody could reall...
Maybe worth more than 3 stars, bits of it are haunting me already, it being nearly a page turner. An elderly artist pondering his imminent death, a blind girl with more senses than her sighted family & friends, a grieving twin clutching at life & dealing with grief through adultery, an old hippy ...
Michelangelo Electric, un roman captivant si neconventional care s-a numarat printre finalistele prestigiosului Booker Prize 2004, face parte din Colectia Raftul Denisei (foarte faina si ingrijita) si prezinta povestea fascinanta a unui artist tatuator de la inceputul secolului XX cand aceasta me...
The village of Marsdale is a quiet corner of the world, cradled in a remote dale in England's lovely Lake District. The rhythm of life in the deeply religious, sheltered community has not changed for centuries. But in 1936, when Waterworks representative Jack Ligget from industrial Manchester arr...
My lungs are beginning to fail. They work only to half their capacity and they commit me to the house much of the time. I have missed two weeks of teaching. Walking the hill has become difficult, and breathing monumental, as if I am indisposed to the air itself. The cypresses at the end of the ro...
She is the author of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award and a Lakeland Book of the Year prize. In 2004, her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Write...
It was such a great house, too – they’d never been able to afford to rent a whole house in the city where they used to live. And the rent was half what they had paid for their last apartment. The house had two bedrooms, a finished basement. It was cute, forties-era, unostentatious in that timid, ...
This was not uncommon after a night shift at the hospital. In the hotel room she studied herself in the mirror. The mirror was oval and full-length, in a hinged frame, which could be tilted up or down. She had bought a new dress. The blue was good on her, lighting her face and complementing her e...
All day at work he looks forward to seeing her. On the train home, he reads, glancing up at the stations of commuter towns, land-steal under construction, slabs of mineral-looking earth, and pluming clouds. He imagines her robe falling as she steps across the bedroom. Usually he arrives first, wh...