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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Night Owl (Night Owl, #1) in Books

Jan 11, 2021

WOW!

I was hooked with this early on, the first chapter alone sucked me in. I didn't entirely know what to expect when I started this, I just knew that several people I follow on here had given it good ratings and I thought, I want to try that! So I bought it and WOW!

The concept of the story is different, and I loved it. The writer/character in the story is called M.Pierce just like the author themselves and the end, where he says he's going to write their story for others to read...brilliant!

The epilogue has left me a little stumped, but considering it's a trilogy, I guess it's left it open to continue.

Can't wait for more!

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Natalie Portman recommended A Tale of Love and Darkness in Books (curated)

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Amos Oz | 2005 | Biography, Religion

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"Essentially an autobiography tracing the author’s own family’s move from Europe to what is now Israel and the disappointment of immigration. His mother killed herself, and he’s spent much of his life creating scenarios of why that happened. The process of meditating on her life makes him into a writer. The book is also about the birth of a language. He talks about his great-uncle, who was one of the architects of modern Hebrew, and how there didn’t used to be a word for shirt until he created it, because Hebrew had been a biblical language. It’s so interesting to think about what comes before the process of naming something—how you struggle when you don’t have the words to say what you feel."

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