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LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.
"It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the life that it purloined."
"Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordina ...more
"It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the life that it purloined."
"Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordina ...more
Wow. Just wow. I don't even know where to start. I've read a lot of non-linear narratives, but something about the way the story unfolded with this was, quite simply, a work of art. It felt like a very gradual mental unfolding, in which you get glimpses of cause and effect (and not necessarily in that order)that weave in and out of each other to create a totally enveloping narrative tapestry that isn't complete until the final page. I loved that Roy was able to incorporate a child's sense of pla
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Wow! Wow! Wow! What an amazing book! Roy creates her own world, her own language and it is stunning. A world of
greenheat
red mangoes
skyblue cars
white boats
yellow pants.
A world where it is always ten minutes past two.
A world full of a few of my favorite things, The Sound of Music, London floaty pens, a toy koala.
Love-in-Tokyo.
Bar Nowl.
A world where anything can happen. A world where everything can change in a day. A world where the line between overwhelming love and overwhelming pain is thin.
greenheat
red mangoes
skyblue cars
white boats
yellow pants.
A world where it is always ten minutes past two.
A world full of a few of my favorite things, The Sound of Music, London floaty pens, a toy koala.
Love-in-Tokyo.
Bar Nowl.
A world where anything can happen. A world where everything can change in a day. A world where the line between overwhelming love and overwhelming pain is thin.
I can barely remember a thing about this book, other than it was very hard to get through, and that this year I visited the area in India where it takes place
Read Harder 2018 challenge #5 - a book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)
Jan 25, 2008
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