Lucy Barton is a wonderful discovery, Elizabeth Strout even a greater one.By writing Lucy’s character Strout wrote and made a whole world, a world in its complexity and its entirety. Lucy is an unforgettable character, so unique, so different, so lifelike, so herself. She is different than other people around her, she is careful, timid, …
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Isn’t it such a shame when a book starts off wonderfully: interesting, dynamic, original, just to continue and end in a completely different tone. By the end How Much of These Hills Is Gold lost all of its novelty and freshness. It turned into unskillfully written chapters filled with incredibility and tackiness. The main thread …
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John Lanchester, The Wall
A dystopian novel, taking place in our possible near(ish) future, describes the life of a Defender. The idea seems interesting, in theory, specially because I always enjoy a good dystopia, but in the end it wasn’t. The pace is very slow, at times boring. The premises of that new society are there, interesting, but that …
A Literary Snob 