La danza della memoria

A Mad Desire to Dance by Elie Wiesel is one of those "I know I should really like this, but I don't" novels. You know the kind. It just hangs out on the book shelf, the great name of its author exuding an ethereal glow, biding its time until its dark powers of persuasion ensnare you. Wiesel had garn Leggi tutto

I made a drastic decision with this one: I stopped reading and tossed it aside. Now, that's something I usually don't do. Even if I don't like a novel, I seem to find the stamina to push through. I just couldn't go on with this one. There's nothing that appeals to me. At. All. During my read I hit a wa Leggi tutto

This book follows the psychoanalysis of a Jewish survivor of World War II Poland whose family was killed in the war and who is convinced he is mad. While the analyst finds him a troubling patient because he resists letting her explore his memories, he also is so lucid that it's hard for him to seem

I've spent an hour or so trying to figure out how the review for this book should go. My rating is not based on the literary quality of the book. It's based on how the book made me feel. While parts were thought-provoking, the majority of the book dragged my spirits down so low that just reading it p Leggi tutto

Usually, I want answers. I want books with characters who ask so many questions and struggle to find something they didn't have before. Maybe they need closure, or they need happiness, or they need a cure. This book asked so many questions. This book IS questions. It's one man asking questions that

I took some time and read some reviews of this book online after I finished and I walked away feeling like everyone missed the thrust of the entire book. The NYT review called it aphoristic and simplistic. I'm always interested when the entire novel gets ignored in favor of the aphoristic and simpli Leggi tutto