Away

Maybe this isn't the best book to read when you are tired. Unfortunately, nighttime is the only time I have to read. I'm growing to appreciate big print and little words.

I spent a lot of time re-reading each sentence of this book. What ever happened to subject/predicate, topic sentence, and consistent timeline/POV style of writing? It's amazing to think it went through an editor at a major publishing (Random) house. Maybe Amy Bloom is a just that well-known. To me, it felt a little like she took each section of the book, ran them through in a blender, and then tossed them back on a page.

I would be giving it one star if I hadn't been somewhat enlightened by the historical aspect and what I believe, in my own, incompetent way, to be the overarching message of the book. And that might be that at times, we go on an epic quest and find what we weren't looking for.

Is it just me?

This book was so well-written and crafted, which I appreciated, and I really wanted to like it. But it just felt like page after page of suffering and depression. The story just went from misery to different misery and didn't feel like there was any resolution at the end. I didn't care about most of the characters and actively disliked the others. I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did.

I really liked the way this story was written. It was very unusual and yet satisfying. A couple times, I thought the author took a side story a little too far. I don't want to give anything away, but I do want to say I was confused and sad by the way the story ended. But I would recommend this book to others.