2019: #5 – The Mars Room (Rachel Kushner)

I’ve wrestled with my feelings about this book, and I think I’ve fallen solidly on the side of “meh”. I struggled to get through it, but kept going because I was interested in the prison drama of it all. I can appreciate the literary quality of the writing, but the story structure left something to be desired. Sometimes things are linear, sometimes we’re jumping around

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2019: #1 – All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

I enjoyed this book, though I found it very slow. What I particularly liked was that it explored World War II from a couple of perspectives that I haven’t read before, despite having read a *lot* of World War II novels.  The first main perspective is that of Marie-Laure, a young French girl who goes blind before the war and then must flee Paris with

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