This beautifully written book did not capture my full attention. I read it while on a trip to Norway so maybe the beautiful Norwegian landscape overpowered my experience with the novel. Olsson's description is excellent; often I felt myself in the places she described (on a deck in New Zeland o...
I guess the theme of this book was people who don't talk and are unable to communicate. Maybe so, but I got so tired of no one talking and communicating that I just wanted to yell, "Somebody SAY something!" Read for my IAL contemporary literature class, and I think I made an ass out of myself d...
I have had this book for some time (a year, probably) and have read it in the past few days. It did take part of the first chapter to understand what was happening but then I could not wait to see what would happen next. The story is told by Miriam's father, and partly by Miriam's mother, and rev...
At first, I was really excited to read this but as I continued, it became a dread to finish it. I understand the author was trying to highlight the tension between words and silence and the struggle to put into words everything the characters had gone through but it was constantly in my face that...
some of my favorites:-come sit by me, and i shall tell you all my sorrows; we shall talk to each other about secrets.-my life now consists of fragments, where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. what shall i do with these glittering shards? th...