Not entirely sure how I feel with this one. It wasn‘t what I had in mind, but it was good nonetheless. It got to be a bit repetitive at times for me and so it didn‘t have me all hooked. Either way, the plot was interesting and I enjoyed it.
Not entirely sure how I feel with this one. It wasn‘t what I had in mind, but it was good nonetheless. It got to be a bit repetitive at times for me and so it didn‘t have me all hooked. Either way, the plot was interesting and I enjoyed it.
It‘s a biography so obviously she dies in the end but it kind of destroys me how she had this major complex of always putting on a persona and being either a movie star or a wife even long after she retired and her first husband had died.
I love reading about the late 1800s early 1900s era and this was a really interesting read!
Fun, kinda dark romp.. I enjoyed 4321 by the same author.. he seems obsessed with refractions/reverberations across (shared) lives/timelines? I'll pick up any other Austers I stumble across..
Friends or the Library sale haul! The top five are signed and I also got a stack of older ARC copies for free. I love my library!
For my rdg grp on wed we're doing a Auster/Hustvedt combo.With art heavy 'what I loved' + now with this deep description of silent films I can vividly imagine their very intellectual chats over their cornflakes. Here David zimmer has lost his wife + 2 sons in a plane crash, in his grief he writes a work abt a silent film star who disappeared at the height of his fame. When a later purports be from his wife arrives he is drawn into a mystery.
It's not every day that a new bookstore opens in your town - in fact, we haven't had one in about 25 years! The bookish folk here are all very excited. I'm planning to check it out on Saturday and probably give it a little financial support 😊❤📚 #bookstore
Dollar General finds!! An older picture of the girls.. I can‘t believe they are grown!! 🥲