Review: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

I enjoyed this book. If the goal was to bring me back to reading, and to feed my writing with eloquent words, then this book succeeded.

Warning: spoilers below

I thought sometimes the writing was a little too eloquent. Unnecessarily flowery. This was especially distracting when the author was in the point of view of a character who wouldn’t possibly talk with the author’s grand eloquence, or know the things the author knows about neuroscience, or literature, or music.

I picked this book because...