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By Diane , Armchair Tour Guide · 25 posts · 896 views
By Diane , Armchair Tour Guide · 25 posts · 896 views
last updated Oct 16, 2020 08:08PM
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2.5 stars. I read The English Patient many years ago and loved it. I did not love this book. It had some very evocative moments, but overall I was bored.
A friend of mine grew up in then Ceylon and her descriptions of its beauty and ambience, gave me a desire to see this gem of an Island. I had high hopes for this book, but it fell short for me.
Running in the Family is a book of memories of the Ondaatje family, of Michael's Grandparents and Parents. The impression I got from this book was that t ...more
A friend of mine grew up in then Ceylon and her descriptions of its beauty and ambience, gave me a desire to see this gem of an Island. I had high hopes for this book, but it fell short for me.
Running in the Family is a book of memories of the Ondaatje family, of Michael's Grandparents and Parents. The impression I got from this book was that t ...more
I love when he writes about his native home, as he evokes a mood and color of the history and his life there in his unique, poetic, style.
Lyrical, impressionistic vignettes of family history and memory. I enjoyed the glimpses into Ceylon of the 1920s-1950s and was amazed by the colorful, yet highly troubled antics of certain members of Ondaatje's family. However, all along I wanted more in-depth knowledge and context for this family history--the lack of those made me less excited about picking the book up each day to read more. Still, it was a beautiful, crazy dream of a book.
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Nov 10, 2014
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