Larkin’s Reviews > In the Midst of Winter > Status Update

I like that she starts a new book on January 8 each year. I'd read a book from her again as long as it was recommended, but I don't think I'd really pick one up without prompting.

FINISHED. I figured that Cheryl had done it a while back. She is a murderer, she "accidentally" killed that woman for her own reasons. Granted her husband was a horrible man and she had been abused for years, so there's a defense. I did like the wrapping up and thought it was a good book. I didn't like the quote at the end, the last page didn't fit for me.

(305) This book reminds me a bit of Ms. Dalloway (I enjoyed this novel much more) with the way it kind of hops around from different people's thoughts briefly every now and again. Is this omnipresent 3rd person or something? Even though there's been a murder and their transporting a dead body, there's no suspense. It's a backdrop for the romance and their past lives. Less than 25% of this book is the present.

(232) it's okay. There's a racism from all of them that being darker even in central america is uglier than being light skinned and having european features, which is shittily casual. I don't feel a lot towards this book even though parts are tragic. I could stop now and be okay, but I must finish. At least it's sectioned well.

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Like most translated books that I've read, I feel like it can make the writing stiff and flat. It's probably not the author's fault, it might be the translation. The stories are interesting and rely heavily on trauma, pain, and loss, but there's no heart. I didn't expect the dead body thing to happen either. I do think the stories are interesting, and they're terrible, but it doesn't make me feel genuinely

(71) I like this story. I like the three perspectives, but since I started it and then put it down I kind of had to reremember everything. I wonder if this will be a story that doesn't really have a plot in the present. It's just stories. I don't know if I've ever read a book where the love interests were elderly. There's a lot of trauma, the history is well placed and easy to pick up. I might take this book with me.

Started yesterday. I'm still in a slump and this is the first book I've been slightly into in the last month. It always amazes me how much time America spends fucking around on foreign affairs when our country is struggling. This reminds me of the Poison wood Bible because of the way the history is thrown on, but Allende doesn't do it as smoothly or easy to understand. I feel comfortable that this is an own voices.