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Sight Reading
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
10 posts | 8 read | 1 reading | 5 to read
Compulsively readable, memorable, and wise. Nancy Richler, author of the Giller Prize Finalist The Imposter Bride On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Although their brief meeting may seem insignificant, behind them lie two decades in which their life paths have crisscrossed, diverged and ultimately interlaced. Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to the composer Nicholas Elkoonce the love of Hazels life. It has been twenty years since Remy, an ambitious conservatory student; Nicholas, a wunderkind launching an international career; and his wife, the beautiful and fragile Hazel, first came together, tipping their collective world on its axis. As their story unfolds, and they find themselves linked anew by a final secret, each discovers the surprising ways in which the quest to create something real and truebe it a work of art or ones own lifecan lead to the most personal of revelations. Lyrical and evocative, Sight Reading explores mysteries of intuition and perception while unspooling a transporting story of marriage, family and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.
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REPollock
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
Mehso-so

I read it avidly, but i won't say that i loved the reading of it. In retrospect, it was a string of beautiful passages abt music & what it means to be a dedicated musician/composer, connected together with flat characters who don't experience much growth. It's as if these characters‘ details are intended to make them complex (vitiligo, bisexuality, amputation of fingers) but it's all treated with the superficiality of an unfortunate haircut.

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REPollock
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
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This is my other hurricane book. Loving the passages about playing music alone and in a group from the musician‘s perspective.

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EmilyChristine
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
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1. Couch
2. Usually random, whatever is closest which might be a real bookmark
3. I can just stop
4. Both
5.TV
6. Several
7. Everywhere but prefer home
8. Silent
9. Never
10. Keep it new
11. No (unless it‘s already been written in by someone else)
12. @Leigh0906

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Mccall0113
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
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1. Couch or bed
2. Bookmark or tissue
3. Stop any time
4. Sometimes
5. Tv is usually on, silly kids
6. Usually 1 or 2
7. Everywhere
8. Silently
9. Only look to see how many pages
10. Like new!
11. Never!
12. @EmilyChristine

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callielafleur
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
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1) The chair in the living room. Very comfy.
2) Bookmarks if there's one handy.
3) I try to make it to the end of the chapter.
4) I like to have something warm to drink, maybe something to nibble.
5) TV more than music. I especially like reading while I watch sports.
6) Several
7) Everywhere!
8) silently
9) Rarely
10) I don't get too bummed if I break a spine.
11) If the mood strikes.
12) @GrilledCheeseSamurai @Ash.on.the.line @tomes4gnomes

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guinsgirlreads
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
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Rocking the new #bookriot shirt at work today 👍🏻❤️📚

Bookcation74 ❤️ 7y
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crayella
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
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This book is single-handedly getting me through shadowing at a high school during finals week #sightreading

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crayella
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay

This book is fantastic so far, I love how it skips through time and considers music in a new way.

DebinHawaii Welcome to Litsy!! 🎉📚👍😀 7y
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JSW
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
Bailedbailed

Tried. Didn't connect with the characters at all. And I could tell this would be one where I force myself to read- life's too short and I have a TBR pile. Onwards.

Jenshootsweddings I'm all about bailing! I never used to but you're right - life is short and our TBR is long! 7y
JSW @Jenshootsweddings thank you for your corroboration!!! 🙌🏼 There are so many books out there. So. Many. 7y
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BookishClaire
Sight Reading | Daphne Kalotay
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This roughly sums up my life and probably everything I'll ever write about.