Book Review: Piranesi
January 3, 2025
I believe that the less you know about it going in, the better! So take a chance on Piranesi if you’re in the mood for something different.
I believe that the less you know about it going in, the better! So take a chance on Piranesi if you’re in the mood for something different.
There is darkness in this story, but it’s leavened by Smith’s ever-playful storytelling, and her characters’ capacity for resistance & hope.
Timelines and characters are bound together through an ancient text that changes their lives in incredible and unexpected ways.
McCracken delights in human absurdity and the slippery art of writing about your family – be it fiction or memoir, or both at once.
This is a spare, affecting picture of a young man trying to pin his fragile sobriety to a version of self and future that he can believe in.
The plot moves quickly, keeping the reader engaged. Twists and turns abound, all wrapped up with a fun bunch of characters.
Faintly sinister worlds, detached domesticity, and oddly compelling food writing all combine to produce that indefinable Murakami magic.
The winner of the 2024 Booker prize, Orbital is moving, thought-provoking & short enough you’ll want to read it again the moment you finish.
Thoroughly researched, engaging and confronting, it’s one of Evaristo’s more unusual books, but no less enthralling.
This was a luminous read – descriptions of the natural world, history, and character’s inner voices are related with sensitivity and vivacity.
Jacqueline Harpman has managed to convey a beautifully brutal balance of life and death, love and loneliness.
Almond broadened my understanding of what it means to be an emotional being and made me question; what is it, to love, to feel, to act?
Evocative, tender, and deeply moving, this story will linger in your heart long after you have turned the final page.
The main trio constitute more proof – if any was needed – that Erdrich writes some of the best young adults in contemporary fiction.
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Engrossing and slow-building, this left me with a similar feeling as a well-told true crime podcast: half the story is in the context.
The eloquently evoked sights, smells and turns of phrase serve to amplify the silence and inhibition that underpin all the characters.
Realistic and disgusting details of life are the showstoppers, as is the contrasting glory of the American wilderness.
Intermezzo can be described as the next episode in Sally Rooney’s series of novels about young adults and adult-adults figuring out what to say to each other.
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