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The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel
The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel | Anne Enright
9 posts | 16 read | 24 to read
2012 Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Literature "This stunning novel by a Booker Prize winner . . . Offers up its brilliance by way of astonishingly effective storytelling."Booklist, starred review "A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other womanGina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT workerThe Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity. . . . This novels beauty lies in Enrights spare, poetic, off-kilter proseat once heartbreaking and subversively funny. Its built of startling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers who've ever lived.Elle
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Abailliekaras
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The Forgotten Waltz and Ai Wei Wei Speaks were excellent. Currently reading Sea of Poppies. The rest are books that have fallen off my TBR ... #riotgrams day 3 #threewordtitles

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cariashley
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Pickpick

This one is hard to rate, but I'm going with pick for the beautiful language. I loved The Gathering and was happy to be back in Enright's hands again, but I found the character development in this one to be weak. The relationship between the two main characters is left almost intentionally vague. Cheers though to finishing my 130th book of the year, this is the bubbly I'll be drinking later tonight!

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cariashley
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Getting in some lovely reading about the extravagance of kissing while my highlights set. 💆🏼

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cariashley
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Some lazy post-holiday reading in bed. Love this paragraph. Sometimes I just need a book with very little plot and excellent writing.

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HardcoverHarlot
Mehso-so

Beautiful language. I cannot stress this enough. But it's not quite enough to overcome the lack of plot. I also am starting to realize that I don't like books with little dialogue. Talk more, describe less!!

Crash A lot of her books are like that. Personally I don't mind. 8y
JulieAnn Aaahhh! Just got this from library! I'm not a big fan of overly descriptive works either. Will still give it a go though. Nothing ventured, right? 8y
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HardcoverHarlot
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Up next is one that I see hasn't gotten very good reviews, but it's been sitting on my TBR shelf for awhile now, so I plan to snuggle up in a pillow mountain and start this one tonight.

LitHousewife This has been on my TBR for a while, too. I look forward to your thoughts. 8y
BookishTrish I loved the writing. 8y
BookBabe I love the idea of snuggling up in a pillow mountain. ☺️ 8y
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SusanInTiburon I loved The Green Road. Let us know what you think of this one. 8y
Kelreads I liked it a lot! 8y
ReadingEnvy This is my favorite Enright (of the three I have read.) 8y
Lindy I'm a sucker for a distinctive voice and intelligent prose so I loved this. Lives crashing at the same time as the economy. 8y
Vanessa I loved the writing in this one. 8y
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kay89

Being dead was like being tickled, except that when you flew out of your body you never came back.

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kay89
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Coming home was so strange, it was like arriving in from a long walk on a beautiful autumn day to find everyone still huddled around the fire.

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MyBookStrings
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I was numb, in his arms, with the thought of all I had lost: the movement of his hand was just a movement, his tongue was an actual tongue. I had killed it; my best thing. The guilt, when it finally hit, was astonishing.

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