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lindakays

lindakays

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An avid reader, always looking for another good book to devour, I'm an artist and published writer (poetry, essays and short stories) currently working on an MFA in Fiction at Stonecoast, a low residency program through the University of S. Maine. My website is www.sienkiewiczlinda.com and my blog on writing is http://lindakays.livejournal.com/
  • The Motor City, MI
  • member since August 10, 2007

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  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    • Rated 2 stars

    “The story is told as monologue from a Pakistani talking to an American stranger in Pakistan. In the course of one day, Changez tells about his experience working and falling in love in America (Did anyone else see the allegory between America and his lover Erica?) I found it eerie to be inside his head for so long, never hearing the American’s voice, but perhaps that is the author’s intent. Isn’t that the way we live our own lives, explaining and justifying what we do? Changez’s is a lonely voice, and he is so intent on telling his story that he seems unaware of the crossfire he has unwittingly put himself in. ”

    lindakays wrote this review Sunday, January 20, 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Lucky
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Most staggering were Sebold’s accounts of how she was treated as a rape victim—by her father who didn’t understand how it could’ve happened if the rapist didn’t have a weapon, as if she let him rape her, classmates who claimed to have personally known her, the officer who didn’t believe she was a virgin prior to the rape, her friends who turned distant, her sister who couldn’t relate, her steadfast mother who allowed her to just “be” at home to heal, the horrible ordeal the court system put her through and the defense lawyer who tried to trip her up. The world turns surreal, and it doesn’t end when the rapist is convicted, but Sebold speaks like a survivor when she writes “I live in a world where the two truths coexist; where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand.” ”

    lindakays wrote this review Monday, November 12, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Lake, the River & the Other Lake
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The story covers several different characters' lives one summer in a northern Michigan tourist town, among them an American Indian who tries to sabatoge the jetski riders stirring up the lake, a naive 16 year old town boy with a crush on a hot tourist girl who's a wealthy, spoiled, sexual exhibitionist, the owner of an orchard whose son wants to marry the Mexican worker pregnant with his child, and a retired, widowed pastor who knows the parrish wants to force him from his home. Humorous, entertaining and touching.”

    lindakays wrote this review Monday, November 12, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Disobedience

    Disobedience

    by Jane Hamilton
    • Rated 5 stars

    “When teenager Henry Shaw learns of his mother's affair, in order to understand it, says "To picture my mother a lover, I had at first to break her in my mind's eye, hold her over my knee, like a stick, and bust her in two. When that was done, when I had changed her like that, I could see her in a different way."
    Brilliant writing, fascinating story, compelling and believable characters.”

    lindakays wrote this review Wednesday, September 26, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Fourth Hand
    • Rated 2 stars

    “The story of a schlock TV newsman who gets his hand bitten off by a lion in a circus in India, and has a transplant on the condition that the wife of the deceased donor has visiting rights with the hand. I read the first half on a three hour drive from Detroit to Cleveland and annoyed my family because I kept laughing outloud. I finished the book on the drive back, but I was in near tears, because it turned from an outrageous comedy to a touching love story. Wasn't the best book, but it kept me happy for six or seven hours.”

    lindakays wrote this review Wednesday, September 26, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The supposedly fun thing is going on an ocean cruise, and like Wallace, the idea excites me as much as going to a weeklong, tool stamping industry conference. It's a sadly funny and poignant essay written from an outside-the-loop guy who found the whole cruise affair rather squalid in a spotless kind of way. It was required reading for an MFA lecture, and I enjoyed the entire book of essays. Plus, the cover art is just outstanding...the picture of David on the back is also nice to look at.”

    lindakays wrote this review Wednesday, September 26, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Suspicious River
    • Rated 5 stars

    “This is one of the darkest books I've ever read, but the prose is absolutely stunning. "Pine trees shiver like poisoned arrows," and "the moon is a clean sickle...and only now and then a shred of cloud passes through its claw." It's not a book for the faint hearted or easily spooked, yet Leila, the main character, learns how to survive, something she's been struggling to do since she was six when her mother was murdered. ”

    lindakays wrote this review Thursday, September 20, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The book's narrator, Christopher, doesn't express his emotions, but it's fascinating how his behavior tells us everything, and we're able to get glimpses of this autistic's capacity to love and care about others. Most readers are drawn to flawed characters, and Christopher is one, but I was amazed at how my affection for him grew. I ached for him in his quest for the truth, and then, at how shocking the truth was.”

    lindakays wrote this review Thursday, October 4, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Map of the World
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Overall, a good read, I especially liked getting Howard's point of view. The family went through dramatic changes- when young mother Alice's innattention causes the drowning death of a neighbor child, and then is accused of child abuse at the school where she teaches. I thought the latter third of the book seemed rushed, particularly concerning Howard. For some reason, the end wasn't satisfying...not that you always have to have a happy ending. Something felt missing.”

    lindakays wrote this review Thursday, September 20, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Tortilla Curtain
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The ending of this book was so profound, in the way it brought two socio-economic classes together in tragedy, that I wept.
    ”

    lindakays wrote this review Friday, September 14, 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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