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|The Goldfinch
Written by Drusilla on February 11th, 2014
E-Readers were made for books like The Goldfinch – in hardback, it’s simply too heavy to hold. By the time I reached page 550 or so, I had decided it was also too big to finish. Unless you are willing to read tens of thousands of tres, tres literary prose. Unless you want to learn how to fake a Duncan Fife chair. Unless you want to experience and re-experience and again experience what it’s like to get high on everything from glue through Percocet, Vicodin and cocaine….
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Filed under Book Review | Tags: Donna Tartt, Review, The Goldfinch
What I’ve been reading
Written by Drusilla on December 28th, 2013
My last post came from New York where I spent four wonderful days enjoying the city and the company of a number of new friends. I visited Sara Weiss, my editor at Grand Central, and came home loaded with books to read. When I finished those, I bought some more.
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Filed under Book Review | Tags: Burial Rites, Drusilla Campbell, Elise Juska, Hannah Kent, Jami Attenberg, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Sandra Younger, The Blessings, The Fire Outside my Window, The Middlesteins, You Should have Known
Book Review: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Written by Drusilla on April 27th, 2013
I like looking at all the Kate Atkinson books I have lined up in my bookcase. Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Human Croquet. Emotionally Weird and more. The covers remind me of the hours of pleasure this author has given me. There’s a directness and generosity in Atkinson’s writing that makes her voice a stand out in a time when half the books I read are by authors striving for a barely nuanced, too cool style and the other half exhaust the reader with their individuality.
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Gone Girl with Me, Myself, and I
Written by Drusilla on April 4th, 2013
I couldn’t avoid reading GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn. For one thing, the title is very close to that of my last book, LITTLE GIRL GONE. Everywhere I looked – in magazines, in blogs and on Twitter – there was GONE GIRL and always there was lots of chatter associated with it.
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Filed under Book Review | Tags: Book Review, Bring Up the Bodies, Drusilla Campbell, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Hilary Mantel, plotting, Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall
Book Review: Schroder by Amity Gaige
Written by Drusilla on March 4th, 2013
SCHRODER by Amity Gaige is about a man who kidnaps his daughter for six days and takes her on a road trip that covers a thousand miles of beautifully described New England countryside and encounters with a number of colorful characters. Along the way he learns that love is neither a reason nor an excuse and that no matter where or how he hides, a man cannot outrun himself. Written as a letter from prison, the narrator’s voice is strong and compelling, sometimes funny and often philosophical.
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