false 98687 0374299218 9780374299217 718 212 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171425057m/98687.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98687.Call_Me_by_Your_Name_A_Novel 56759 Andre Aciman 976 275 3 3 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 15:03:11 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 13:06:22 -0800 2008 Debated with myself about giving it 3 or 4 stars and settled on 3 due to too much meandering and too many predictable outcomes.
HOWEVER, at times (many) it was breathtaking and almost unbearable in its white-knuckled yearnings. Also loved that the author used beautiful words like "sough."
Here's a snippet from p. 28:
"Mafalda would make my bed every morning, first by folding the top sheet over the blanket, then by folding the sheet back again to cover the pillows on top of the blanket, and once more yet when she folded the whole thing over the bedspread-back and forth until I knew that tucked in between these multiple folds were tokens of something at once pious and indulgent, like acquiescence in an instant of passion."
*Take note that this is ONE sentence!]]>