plaidsicle's reviews
108 reviews

now I need to read some Proust. and Gertrude Stein. and maybe Virginia Woolf, too.

what a soft, gentle, and creepy story this is. there's such a gradual and semi-ambivalent sadness in the end.

I have heard a lot about The Peacegiver and seen it on a thousand coffee tables around the world (seems like), but I'm pretty sure I wasn't meant to pick it up or read it until just now, this weekend. any other time and it would've skimmed through my head as so much lovely, overdone allegory.

this weekend, it made me cry. so much of what the book tries to teach wil be easier to remember for me now, since it actually meant something. someday I'll have to buy a copy. it's probably a book you can re-read at different times and learn new things, depending on what you're going through.

I liked how she put together thematic chapters.
it got pretty sentimental at the end, which is not so much my thing. still, it was an interesting story.

i'll come back to it. promise.

woah, communist china.

this story intrigued me, but the writing just wasn't enjoyable. so much of the romance was cliche and almost ridiculous, the pace was really drawn out, it's a fat, long book, and it was due before I had time to get through it.
someday I may go back and actually finish it. it's definitely a book that deserves skimming.