Hordes Of Scribbling Women #8

[millionreasons]

The Report is done and gone. Again, no review (maybe I'm just bored of writing about books), not even a rating. I'd probably give it three stars for the story and two for the structure and style. I found the device of revealing information a chapter or two before the characters discovered said information quite irritating and it felt as if the book should have followed one character in order to have more emotional impact.

Anyway, next up is We Are Completely Beside Ourselves, as recommended by picosgemeos (and someone at work). From the description, and the reviews, this book sounded, in turn, silly (I know the twist) and annoyingly tragic: "As a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover." But the tone in the first chapter is gossipy, darkly funny. The narrator is 22 in 1996, as was I, not that I can really remember being that young.

Comments

[picosgemeos.livejournal.com]

I used to write book reviews religiously for GoodReads (almost compulsively) but then I missed one, then another, then it became too late to go back... and now I just write them when I feel like it!

[millionreasons.livejournal.com]

I thought since I’m doing a “reading project” then I should review each book, but I didn’t have much to say about this one without revealing the plot.