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wobbly

wobbly

a small-role actor and voice actor of such repute that I have long kept my day job, I spend my off-hours with two things: books and children, both of which fill my life and home.
Spurred by an Art Garfunkel article, I have begun to compile a list of my all-time 100 favourite reads. When I peruse it, I note that I seem inclined towards that... more »
  • Hemmingford, Qu, Canada
  • member since October 14 2006

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  • Digging to America
    • Rated 3 stars

    Having read everything she's written and long-smitten with her airy, silky style, I feel as if Anne Tyler and I are almost friends. Sadly, her latest celebration of daily life - Digging to America - is the end of our relationship, and through no fault of hers. It's only that her last few books seems settled into a dreary sameness; I feel I'm reading one very long family letter. Tyler's magic, after all, is that the reader invariably finds characters they recognize from their own lives. Digging to America is no different, and that's the growing problem. I simply can not dredge up much interest any longer in babies with pacifiers, fallen elms, everyday chit-chat, and endless family parties. I will always treasure reading her earlier works. I will always admire her elegant prose.
    But I stopped reading my copy of Aunt Edna's New Year's letter in 1998.

    wobbly wrote this review Tuesday, January 2 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Mission Song
    • Rated 1 stars

    Twenty books in, it may be time for Mr. LeCarre to hang up his pen. Like many, I happily anticipated and devoured his every work, but the Mission Song marks a lifeless low point. While the entire interpreter thing was dull, the secret island rendez-vous was worse, turgidly turning into a 100-page snoozefest. I found myself unable to like - or even care about - the protagonist. Unlike most LeCarre characters, Salvo is so poorly rendered that he might as well have been drawn by Dan Brown. I think I'll go back and read Smiley's People, just to get this LeCarre out of my circuitry.

    wobbly wrote this review Monday, January 1 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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