The Summer Book

Why it took me almost three weeks to finish this relatively short series of vignettes is hard to fathom. I suppose tax season is getting in the way of reading. But, I didn't enjoy the first half of the book as much as the second half, so that may be another issue. Also, there were times when the language seemed very odd, which may be to do with the translation.

One of my favorite vignettes was “Of Anglefish and Others,” which had me laughing out loud. I really liked the grandmother, who almost stepped gingerly off of the page, poking at things with her cane and saying something cantankerous. And it is inside the grandmother's thoughts that we end the novel, which ties the vignettes together nicely.