pickLess a mystery, and more of a character study, this is the story of three college students. Georgia, Charlie, and Alice all knew Julie Patel, the student who was murdered on campus. The story follows the three of them just prior to the murder, after the murder, and then continues to follow them into their 30s. The murder affects how they navigate the rest of their lives.
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panI didn‘t care for this one at all, which is unfortunate because I loved People of the Book and Horse. The story had a lot of potential, but I found it to be a boring and annoying read. At least I completed #Pop23 ~a book with an alliteration in the title
I think this book has the potential to be frustrating for a lot of people, but I'm halfway through and I'm loving it!
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary.
Geraldine Brooks is always hit-or-miss with me. I'm only in the first chapter but I'm thinking to let this one go.
pickFinished this two weeks ago. Tells the story of Caleb, a Native American, and Bethia, a young Pilgrim woman. Brooks folds in stories of life in Massachusetts for both parties: expectations of each other, the life of young women, what neither of them are allowed to do because of their status in relation to white men and religion, and finally what it‘s like for Caleb who goes to university in Boston. A soft pick and a good companion while driving.
pickI had wanted to read this for a while but I‘m glad I waited until I was in college, especially after my first year. It was so relatable to read a college story where the narrator felt like an imposter who didn‘t fit in. That‘s how college felt for me in the beginning so that was refreshing. I wasn‘t a super big fan of the end tho
pickThis took me ~100 pages to get into but BOY did I love it when I did!! Selin is all of us, we are all Selin
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