false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255573720m/5956868.jpg 5956868 1 Valeria is a whale in a puddle. She harrumphs her daily way through her backwater Hungarian village, finding equal fault with the new, the old, the foreign, and the familiar. Her decades of universal contempt have turned her into a touchstone of her little community—whatever she scorns the least must be the best, after all. But, on a day like any other, her spinster’s heart is struck by an unlikely arrow: The village potter, long known and little noticed, captures her fancy, and Valeria finds herself suddenly cast in a role she never expected to play. This one deviation from character, this one loose thread, is all it takes for the delicately woven fabric of village life to unravel. And, for the first time in a long time, Valeria couldn’t care less. 6129548 28 4 2009 Valeria's Last Stand total:102|5:14|4:30|3:34|2:17|1:7| 102 333 223 61 3 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 02:26:57 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 22:41:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 12:38:53 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 12:39:23 -0700 2009
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The artwork on the book's cover depicts some major motifs of the book: a black pitcher, turnips, peppers, a bicycle, a milk urn.... I...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 21:14:25 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 21:22:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Wed May 27 19:11:45 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 18:41:38 -0700 2009
The b...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 10:36:48 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 18:00:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:25:34 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:57:51 -0700 2009 The lives of the chara...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 20:43:44 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 21:31:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 07:19:25 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 13:37:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Apr 23 20:49:58 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 20:58:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 16:22:53 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 11:03:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 07:39:55 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 13:34:52 -0700 2009
The author's writing style was, for the most part, pretty good. There were a couple of parts which I thought could have been better, but it was otherwis...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 17:34:38 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 09:51:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 29 16:01:46 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 24 12:34:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 09:09:21 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 09:20:07 -0700 2009
It's been awhile since I read of dowry's and dreams...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 09:07:55 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 10:52:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jun 20 07:54:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 14:07:55 -0700 2009
Read it from start to finish, and not with that horrified, can-this-author-be-for-real type of inquisitiveness, but with the delight one rarely finds with a new author. The characterization of those who people Zivatar, as well as the pages of this book, is phenomenal. I can only hope we ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:07:09 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:07:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5956868