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First off, I have to say that it pisses me off that a lot of the one-star reviews here on GR are by people who haven't even read the book. If you read it and thought it was a one-star book then, by all means, rate it that way. But, I think it's b....
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This is a difficult book to review. And I'm still struggling with the star rating. At times it was a 5, at others, for me, a 2. I'd settled on 3.5 stars until I reached the last page, when I decided it should be bumped to a 4.
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“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
“We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
“The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
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