The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De RobertisI made it thru 100+ pages of beautiful, if not over written, narrative. The prose was so lengthy, I lost track of the story, characters and dialogue. Then, when I hit a part of the story line that had an 11 year old girl sexually assaulted by a friend of her father's I just had to call it quits. I was really struggling with this book from the get go -- but because the theme was the relationships between many generations of Uruguayan women, I was willing to persevere. I wanted to see if I could find a rhythm and a connection. But once the molestation occurred, I was done.
This book required patience that I didn't have.
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Too bad, I thought it was a very good book. I loved the prose and the rhythm of the book. I'll publish my review sometime next week.
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I appreciate your honesty...so few bloggers admit when they give up. I understand your reasoning...life is too short to continue to read something that disturbs us. And you probably knew intuitively that it wasn't going to get better.
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Amy
MOLB:
ReplyDeleteMy initial thoughts of this book were how lyrically written it was...but it is on EPIC scale, and it's a book that needed to be thoughtfully read -- and I just didn't have that time or patience at the moment. Look forward to your review.
Amy:
Thanks for your comments -- yes, I wasn't enjoying it, even though any other time I think I would have. Glad you found my blog.
I had to give up on a book this week also. And it is something I have to review for Amazon. So I really gave it a good try. I have given up on more books this year than I ever have. I think it has to do with blogging and hearing good things about so many new books. I try things that are a bit different, and then end up not liking them. However, sometimes I do that and find something I really do like.
ReplyDeleteGood for you - I have done this a few times this year. Before blogging I didn't think twice about putting a book down, I just didn't do it consciously. It's okay for us to not like all books!
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Uhoh! This one is on my wishlist. I may just have to remove it now - thanks for the honest review and heads up!
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