pickBeautifully written Thien's first novel about Gail who tries to unravel the mistery of her father's past. A story about love, loss, death, war, displacement, trauma, migration...
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pickBeautifully written Thien's first novel about Gail who tries to unravel the mistery of her father's past. A story about love, loss, death, war, displacement, trauma, migration...
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pickAnother exquisitely written novel on loss and guilt and history and finding, and accepting, one's place(s) in the world. It's not quite as astonishingly good as Do Not Say We Have Nothing but Thien's prose is graceful and elegant and it's crystalline clarity cuts both gentle and deep. Beautiful. Heartbreaking.
Yesterday I ventured out into Scotland's rainy excuse for a summer to wander round Abbotsford House but today I absolutely refuse. I will stay in bed with a new book and a cup of tea with the sound of music and rain in the background #weekendgoals
pickI was skeptical when I started this book. I was hoping that it's not just another war story. I'm glad that Thien came out with this beautiful prose. It's such a mellow story, weaving in and out the human emotions. I love it! 😍
Saturday morning. McDonald's breakfast and the remaining half of Certainty
pickDo Not Say We Have Nothing is the best novel I've ever read, so I was interested (and a little nervous) to read this, Thien's debut novel. I loved it so much too! It's not the masterpiece that DNSWHN is, but Thien sensitively explores many of the same themes here: grief, war, and displacement tearing families and psyches asunder, an intercontinental love triangle, a near-indecipherable diary. I'm calling it: Thien is my favorite novelist.
Because it's Sunday afternoon and I cannot digest any more of Infinite Jest
The year after Thien's 2006 novel was published, it was discovered that the details of Naki's life had been grossly embellished. He was not involved in the heart transplant at all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Naki
Wow, may have to pull an all-nighter, the way this story's unfolding! (Who am I kidding? My all-nighter days are long behind me… :-)
Thien's 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing' is the best novel I've ever read. This, her first, has already wowed me too!
#BacklistBinge
Because Do Not Say We Have Nothing was not only my top read of 2016 but supplanted Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicle as the best novel I've ever read, I must read Thien's entire backlist. I'll start with this in February for #BacklistBinge.
pickThere are as many ways to grieve as there are ways to love and to lose someone. This story dips into lives starting in Japanese occupied Borneo, through modern day Vancouver and Friesland, the Netherlands, illuminating a little bit of the story with each shift in perspective. The author wove medicine, history, cryptography, and radio into the narrative seamlessly, as if these areas of specialty were within her ordinary body of knowledge. #canlit
My son broke his leg two weeks ago, a week before his freshman year of high school. It's been a rough time for all of us. He is frustrated, disappointed, sad, lonely and in pain. Tonight he asked me to sit with him while I read, because he stayed home while his friends went to a football game. There are so many different kinds of pain, as Madeleine Thien expertly describes. I find comfort knowing that we grow from hardship. #canlit
Doing what I can to promote Canadian authors at the Edmonds Library. Madeleine Thien and I attended the same high school in Vancouver BC. Thrilled to have her book in our collection. #canlit
