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...