mono_vox (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mono_vox) wrote,@ 2008-03-23 07:52:00 |
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50 books in 1 year - 2008 - # 7
Shot
by Sarah Quigley
I found this hard to get into. Starting in San Francisco with comedian Lena getting shot on her way to buy donuts, it seemed quirky and interesting, with the bullet having a voice aswell as her.
Then there are pages and pages about her Polish immigrant family, all who have strange aspects and interests (OCD, taxidermy) and how she started performing as a child at her dad's club- whilst it's nice to have some background, half a book on this was dull and too much.
Things start to get interesting when Lena decides to leave California, her horrifcally ambitious and 1-D boyfriend and go to Alaska and takes photos of loss.
This section was full of descriptions of the wilderness and of the secrets and losses people hold inside them and although I could see the ending coming a mile off, it was written with suspense and clarity which the rest of the book lacked.
Shot
by Sarah Quigley
I found this hard to get into. Starting in San Francisco with comedian Lena getting shot on her way to buy donuts, it seemed quirky and interesting, with the bullet having a voice aswell as her.
Then there are pages and pages about her Polish immigrant family, all who have strange aspects and interests (OCD, taxidermy) and how she started performing as a child at her dad's club- whilst it's nice to have some background, half a book on this was dull and too much.
Things start to get interesting when Lena decides to leave California, her horrifcally ambitious and 1-D boyfriend and go to Alaska and takes photos of loss.
This section was full of descriptions of the wilderness and of the secrets and losses people hold inside them and although I could see the ending coming a mile off, it was written with suspense and clarity which the rest of the book lacked.
