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and here is a perfect example of why readers' advisory is so, so tricky, and why i am devoting my life to perfecting the process.
i first came across this book when i was doing an assignment for my readers' advisory class a couple of years ago. my goal was to find a read-alike for The God of Animals, which i had just read and unexpectedly loved.
for the assignment, i used many different readers' advisory resources in order to come up with suitable read-alikes. after using NYPL's "fiction connecti ...more
i first came across this book when i was doing an assignment for my readers' advisory class a couple of years ago. my goal was to find a read-alike for The God of Animals, which i had just read and unexpectedly loved.
for the assignment, i used many different readers' advisory resources in order to come up with suitable read-alikes. after using NYPL's "fiction connecti ...more
I have only read one other Francine Prose, but I liked it a lot. I liked this one a bit less in that it was, at least initially, SO depressing. But that mood began to take shape and with context became bearable. And by the end, the feelings evoked by death, loss, grief were twisted completely from the moorings they'd been tied to in the beginning. This reminded me of "Blue Angel," (the other Prose book I read) in that her character there was destined for disaster the whole book but the inevitabl
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Jul 05, 2008
Laura
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When Nico's sister Margaret dies, her family's world crumbles. Sounds banal, right? Yet Prose does something slightly different with the story -- it's not just about grief and getting along with life after the death of a sibling. It's about finding yourself, about being less than your sister's paler shadow and more of a person that will grow old. The characters, even the minor ones, felt real, as though the book was peering into the lives of people that actually existed.
The interweaving of old m ...more
The interweaving of old m ...more
2.5stars. Seemed more like a YA book. It kept me interested but ultimately proved unsatisfying.
The end seems a bit rushed, but overall the book was haunting and well-written.
Jul 21, 2008
Carrie
marked it as to-read
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Pam
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Oct 01, 2008
Lara
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Nov 26, 2009
Lainey
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Aug 03, 2010
Meghan
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