About Grace | 
so-soThe writing is gorgeous. But I had a really hard time with the protagonist. He is an unbelievably self-centered stalker and mooch who never considers anything except his own overwhelming needs and wants. He treats the women in his life with utter disregard because of his own extreme emotional issues that he desperately needs therapy to help solve. Too many men like him already in the world. We don‘t need another treated as some tragic hero.
pickTruly beautiful language surrounding nature, weather and the world, from ice and snow to sun and tropical sea.
Tale of a chap seeking his daughter and family after leaving them 25 years earlier.
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Such beautiful language.
Such riveting allegories between insects and life, meteorological aspects and the world.
Not a fast mover but so in depth.
This has been on my shelf for almost exactly one-year... I think I've been saving it. I adored his Light book, was left bereft when it finished. I also loved his Rome book. So I think I was kind of savouring this by having it in my shelf... but started it today 😊😊😍😍😍
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐So beautiful and wonderfully written. I absolutely loved it.
My mom is visiting for the first time since February - and it's been a doozy of a post-separation (mine) visit... She did however lend me this after I made her read All the Light We Cannot See a few years ago. Of course the pretty reading outside while the kids jump on the trampoline lasted only a few moments...
#bookreport finished the top three from last weeks forecast. Loved them all. Read Fleishman yesterday, thought provoking, annoying and well written. Started About Grace in bed last night, only read a couple of chapters and not doing it for me yet, but will give a bit longer this morning.
pickVery, very slowly this grew on me. Like the dreams (or premonitions?) of David, the main character, the writing had a dreamlike quality. At first I felt impatient with it but once I settled in and let it wash over me it was like watching the car crash of David‘s life, in very, very slow motion. Not in a bad way. Not an entirely believable story overall but it was moving and worth the slow pace, as long as you‘ve got the patience!
I‘ll admit this little cartoon in the Guardian caught my eye and made me smile last weekend as I struggled through the first third of the tagged book... So, which is it?! Watch this space, I‘m hoping to finish it tonight!
I really enjoyed All the Light We Cannot See; looking forward to this which I think might be his first novel.
so-soFiiiiiinally done with this!!!! Took me over a year to read this through. Learned that even though Doerr writes really well he definitely is not for me. I need things happening in my books. I'm going to give it a So-so because writing and characters worked really well but otherwise the book wasn't for me. Also the edition is really pretty. 😊 ❄❄❄
This writer might have gotten the concept of winter a bit wrong:
Water freezing is a pretty quiet process. The sound certainly doesn't echo through the mountains. As it says here. When the ice from rivers and lakes melt that can be loud. But not the other way around.
-29 is a cold temperature but it's still doable. A person who has spent most of the winter in a cold cabin could certainly spend more than 3 minutes outside even if it's -29.
@LapReader Thank you SO much for everything! I am so thrilled! My socks are soft and warm...perfect for winters in the mountains. I haven‘t read ether book and they both look wonderful. The soap smells lovely, the adorable keychain and that collpsable water bottle is great for when I move (I have to keep hydrated when I move to high altitude). My daughter, the cook, will steal that spice pack for sure. Great swap. Thank you!!! ❤️ #sockswap
#bookhaul from day one of Clunes Booktown. Who knows how many will find their way into my hands tomorrow.
This is such a slow book! I've been forcing myself to read it but I just can't do it at the moment! ☹ It's not bad as a book it just has a slow moving plot. I'm so going to read the rest of this at some point but not right now. I need something fun and easy! Just don't quite know what that might be yet. 🤔
pickOm David som efter 26 år återvänder till Alaska för att leta efter sin dotter.
En vackert skriven bok. Doerr har än en gång gjort sin läxa med att underbygga den väl, denna gång med naturvetenskapliga fakta. Trots att jag är imponerad, gick det långsamt för mig att läsa. Vissa delar är detaljerade och det kanske inte var sort läsning jag behövde just nu. Dessutom är det en bok som utmärker sig med antalet för mig obekanta svenska ord.
pickThis is a sad and beautiful book about relationships of all kinds: romantic, paternal, platonic. Doerr evokes a strong sense of place with vivid prose about the majesty and indifference of the natural world. His characters are broken, lonely and incomplete, yet they still manage to find beauty and meaning in what they can.
#twowordtitles with names. #anditsaugust
pickI appreciate Doerr's style of writing. It's very precise and deep. I haven't read All the Light We Cannot See but from what people have told me the extended, lyrical passages are one of his hallmarks. The story of a hydrologist working though the past and future and the loneliness and guilt of losing, then finding a family. This is a book that I wasn't able to read as quickly as I usually do. Worth a read if you're in the mood to think and learn.
Vacation sometimes means sharing a bed and a booklight with a kid!
Leyendo Sobre Grace con muchas expectativas y mucho miedo también ?
Recent purchase ~ About Grace by Anthony Doerr (Kindle edition📱). I also have 'All the Light We Cannot See' on my to be read pile.📚
With this I start the year of 2017 and my reading challenges. #LitsyReadingChallenge
New books! One from a friend and another from Book Depository. *squeeeaaaalllssss*
"No one wants to hear that the future is already determined. Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery"
My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry,
About Grace,
Vinegar Girl,
Dumplin,
Under the harrow.
#spinepoetry #24in48
I should not be allowed to go into a bookstore or French bakery with money. #booksandmacroons #litsy #bookriot #toomanybooks
pickAs expected the writing was beautiful. About family, the kind we are given and the kind we choose. Interlaced with the everyday miracles of the natural world.
An angry daughter is like an angry hen. The more you chase, the harder it is to catch her. You wait, and be patient, and hope that eventually she comes to you.
Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.
looking forward to this one since I loved All the Light We Cannot See SO MUCH. Also, beautiful cover. ❤️
pickI really liked this book. Maybe not as much as his other book, All the Light We Cannot See, which I loved, but this book is similarly well written. This is Doerr's first novel. It is about a father who has visions of the future and tries to track down his daughter. That doesn't do it justice.
