This is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I've read it many times, and seen many versions of it onstage and on screen. Can't get enough!
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Review: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
This is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I've read it many times, and seen many versions of it onstage and on screen. Can't get enough!
Review: number9dream by David Mitchell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was my first David Mitchell book. It was years ago, and yet the story and his magical writing are still with me.
Review: In the Woods by Tana French
Could not put it down. Tana French weaves plot, character, and place together beautifully.
Review: THE LIKENESS by Tana French
This is one of those special books that draw you in and take over your life.
You can read it to fulfill any number of personal issues: the feeling of family, the concept of "home," the possibility of feeling safe in your life, what's visceral and what's intellectual, how much the present is dictated by the past, politics, class wars, personal damage...
Not to mention the stylistic brilliance of Tana French's writing. Her lyricism, her poetry, her ability to describe things that may or may not even be there. She nails what intuition feels like, what unspoken communications feel like.
One of Tana French's many talents is her ability to maintain many levels of storyline at once. Not chronologically, mind you - all at once. As if linear time didn't exist!
In "The Likeness", what was unspoken was as complex and alive as what was spoken. Innuendo, subtext, and gut feelings made up an entire storyline just under the "normal" plotline. The two - the subtext and the text - would deviate and go down separate paths, and then slide back together at some unexpected point. It took my breath away.
(c) 2016 Suzann Kale
Review: BROKEN HARBOUR by Tana French
Tana French is a magician with words. She creates moods and describes places that put the reader right in the middle of the story. Experiential.
Review: NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro
Magic is when you're reading one thing, but something much deeper is going into your head.
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO, I was first caught up in the story details, the intimate memories of the main character, Kathy, and the vivid pictures Kathy paints of her childhood, her friends, her teachers - and the mystery that surrounds them all.
As the story moves along, I find I'm unable to put the book down, even though Kathy is still describing her life's memories. There's something about Ishiguro that makes her memories become something more. (I can't give details because of a spoiler situation.)
I can say that Kathy is a true innocent. And when she tells us of her life, we can only see the more global picture later on, as the picture widens. The profound implications of Kathy's life don't hit us right away. And because we see the world through her innocence, the final, nightmarish impact is even more shocking.
(c) 2014 Suzann Kale
Review: INVISIBLE MONSTERS by Chuck Palahniuk
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Just... "fasten your seatbelt"!
Review: Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas by David MitchellMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
After reading "Cloud Atlas", I decided I would read anything David Mitchell has ever written and will read everything he writes in the future!
Review: THE RISE AND FALL OF GREAT POWERS by Tom Rachman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is one of those books that you disappear into completely.
11/29/15 --- It's been months since I finished it, and I still have "flashbacks" to it. It was so vivid that I felt like I experienced the main character's story!
Review: SLADE HOUSE by David Mitchell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
More than a ghost story. It's an intricate Mobius Strip exploring the reality/illusion continuum. I could not put it down.
(c) 2016 Suzann Kale
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