Melinda's comments (member since Jun 11, 2009)

Melinda's comments from the Boulder Public Library group.

Terzah wrote: "I loved The God of Small Things. A story of love and class divisions in India, its writing amazed me into tears many times. Beautiful and sad."
The language in this book stunned me. For the first 10 or 15 pages, I didn't know what was happening syntactically (sp? word?) It was different from anything I had read and then I fell into the poetry of it and even the emotional and physical violence woven into the story of the lives of the characters didn't scare me away. The Sound of Music segment is brilliant. It says everything about post-colonialism, east/west, the understandings and private inner lives of children. Melinda