wanna talk about “all consuming”!?? I started reading this last night and was up in the middle of the night reading. I should finish sometime tonight!

a little bit “The Lottery”, a little “Lord of the Flies”

wanna talk about “all consuming”!?? I started reading this last night and was up in the middle of the night reading. I should finish sometime tonight!

wanna talk about “all consuming”!?? I started reading this last night and was up in the middle of the night reading. I should finish sometime tonight!

It’s only 32 page, but I kept highlighting.

Iliked reading about the history of the island and of early California. little mention of the native peoples of the area. As if history started with Europeans. Still what I did get was well done. I just wanted another pre-chapter.

I tuned out (& my library time expired through the escape attempts – not where my interest lies)

Iliked reading about the history of the island and of early California. little mention of the native peoples of the area. As if history started with Europeans. Still what I did get was well done. I just wanted another pre-chapter.

I tuned out (& my library time expired through the escape attempts – not where my interest lies)

This was a good light read. I was a bit disappointed by how neatly the threads were tied up. It skipped along amicably and then suddenly too a bit of gangster turn, and then tied everything up in the end. I’d pick it up if I had to do it all over again, though I don’t know that I’d go out of my way.

A quick read, entertaining, & light enough to read even with the tse-tse fly attention span of one travelling through the airport.

I enjoyed, worth picking up if it’s in reach, not something I’d go out of my way to find.

I very much enjoyed this one. I loved the way past generations informed the lives of the present. I loved the bits of Detroit history which were spot-on.. I found this very compelling, found myself living with the characters in my mind, so I couldn’t wait to get back to reading when my life kept me away…

Worth picking up & reading!

Szymborska glides with grace & poise and humor from light-hearted humor to the extremes of man’s inhumanity to man and back to the light hearted romance. The net effect is that she embraces and folds in the entirety of human experience – all of it (yes, /that/ too!) leaving the reader with nothing left out or annexed — no need to ‘select by rejecting’.

pick it up, read it like a novel. it will make you laugh, & make your heart ache.