Ogni cosa è illuminata

Sometimes reading makes me so angry Dammit. I’m a freaking mess. I realize this and I accept it. Ugh. Why, Jonathan Safran Foer? Why? Why do you do this to me? And why the hell are you so young? I know that some call you gimmicky and think that you are just a phosphoresce in the pannikin (yes, I, too, h Leggi tutto

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (Dutton, 2002) My, what a clever novel! In any case, that, I imagine, is what Jonathan Safran Foer kept saying as he was writing this. And really, much about it is clever. The comparisons to A Clockwork Orange are completely unwarranted, as Alex, Foer's Leggi tutto

I watched the movie of this first and loved it. It was basically a movie about cultural misunderstanding and how people can be cruel without really knowing it. It is a story about what happens when you put an American and someone born out of the Soviet era in the same room and try to make them expla Leggi tutto

Read 2015. Minor edits 2022. I was quite blunt back then :)) This book seems like it was written by someone on drugs. It screams - I am such a special and interesting book. It was indeed special but not always in a good way. I have such mixed feelings about this novel. There were some parts that I lik Leggi tutto

You are burned out. So you suggested to your wife that the whole family spend the weekend in a beach resort. You left the house in the morning, drove the whole day and arrived at the resort few hours before the sunset. You dropped your things, donned your beach wear, went barefoot and hurriedly went Leggi tutto

One of the nice things about being stoned is the added dimension of humor or profundity that otherwise inconsequential things can assume in our impression of them. I remember once having my mind blown at the idea of language, and how any two unrelated people, having been raised in the same country a Leggi tutto

when it's 1:20 a.m. and you're thinking about your favorite book of the year (so far) again and you realize you never posted your review and you just havetohavetohaveto let everyone know how much you loved it. Ho-ly shit. https://emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.co... This book was incredible. Truly. I’ve ta Leggi tutto

Funny In a Tragic Way What would the English of a bright Ukrainian who had learnt it largely from local pop culture and a thesaurus sound like? Hilarious actually. Especially in the telling of a tale which has both been told so many times, and can never be told adequately: the Holocaust. There are tw Leggi tutto

Gimmicks as substance.

Sorry but I didn't care for this at all. If Mr. Nobody wrote a book about himself as the main character, and used some uninventive malapropisms to make discussions with a foreigner amusing, the book would be tossed. But wait, Foer went to Yale. Unfortunately for me the quality of his writing shows m Leggi tutto