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Bronze Anthology Book Review Artemis by Andy Weir (2017) ISBN: 9780553448122 Overview If you were to live on the moon, where would you sleep? What would you eat? How would you earn money? How would you breath? What would life be like… up there? The …
Bronze Anthology Book Review Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman (2017) ISBN: 9780735220683 Overview How do you respond when someone asks how you are doing? Do you say fine? Whether or not you are actually fine? That is Eleanor Oliphant. She is fine. …
ISBN: 9780812995343
Overview
The winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize and a highly acclaimed book, which was supposedly about the death of President Lincoln’s son, Willie, and his proceeding time in the bardo – a transitional state, like purgatory, according to Tibetan Buddhism.
In Three Words
Nothing…
Confusion…
Hodgepodge
Overall Thoughts
By the fifth chapter, there should be some understanding of the plot or characters, but there was none. There was a hodgepodge of short statements that was supposed to come together into a meaningful story, but there was none. Perhaps those statements would eventually get there, but time is fleeting, life is short, and I would rather be folding laundry.
Our Bronze Star Rating
It is a good read for anyone that enjoys a book best characterized as being an avant-garde ‘kaleidoscope, (and) theatrical panorama of voices – living and dead, historical and invested.’ It is not a good read for anyone that expects a book to have a story instead of random, disconnected statements. Overall, it is a single bronze star read, because I did not and could not read past the first five chapters despite two failed attempts.
Bronze Anthology Book Review We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter (2017) ISBN: 9780399563089 Overview Unfortunately, family histories often fade away as time goes on and the business of the present keeps us from learning about the past. Thankfully, this was not the case …
Bronze Anthology Book Review The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (2017) The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women ISBN: 9781492649359 Overview Who has ever heard of the radium-dial industry, let alone its effects on the women painting watch dials with the luminescent element? If the …