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Apr 3, 2021 (Updated Apr 3, 2021)  
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
7
8.4 (14 Ratings)
Book Rating
Fantastic characters (1 more)
Beautifully written
Long (1 more)
Slow in the middle
Unnecessarily long
So this is not my usual genre, but all the rave reviews plus a few recommendations from friends led me to read it.

The writing is so immersive, Marie- Laure's blindness allows for Anthony Doerr to really up the descriptive language and this truely helped bring the streets of Paris and Saint Malo to life for me. I love her relationship with her friends and family too.

I did not take as much of a liking to Warner, I'm not sure if this is due to the writing style changing slightly during his storyline.

The flicking between time frames is quite frustrating and I personally feel unnecessary. I found the middle third very long and slow. Plus the last third was underwhelming because it became obvious how they would meet 150 pages before they do.

I disliked that there meeting was so fleeting but I lived the simple circularity of the whole story.
  
Everything I Know About Love
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton | 2018 | Biography
5.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Alderton has been writing for UK newspapers and magazines for years, and then she wrote this book about love, but not necessarily about finding the love of a man. There’s a very deep female friendship at the heart of it. As a writer myself, anytime I write something that feels painful to tell, and you don’t know how people will respond to it, you’re laying yourself open to be criticized—as a woman especially, when you’re writing about people you’ve slept with and the bad choices you’ve made again and again. As soon as I read it,I got in touch with Alderton. I said ‘Please, please let me buy the rights to this book and let me make it,’ but someone had got there before me. It’s about not giving up, and not losing sight of the thing you’re after just because life has fucked you a few times along the way."

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