bailedAs much as I respected the unique writing style and loved the descriptions of Mount Lebanon and the surrounding areas, the way the narrator is written just kept pulling me out of the story. Also, there‘s a lot of details about the orange groves that I just found dull. If this wasn‘t a library book that I have to return soon, I‘d probably try to keep going, but I have other library books to read as well.
While I‘m loving this story for the most part, it‘s comments like this from the narrator that keep pulling me out of it. The narrator keeps saying certain details from his family‘s past must be made up because they don‘t know the whole truth of it. This is supposed to be fiction, not sure if the writer is trying to make it seem more real with this method or what.
1. I prefer to read sitting, ideally reclined and surrounded by by cushions lol
2. Current read is tagged. The writing style is unlike anything I‘ve ever read before, and there are lots of long sentences with tons of commas which I found off-putting at first. But I ended up finding it endearing as I went on. So far, I‘m glad I gave it a chance cause the story is intriguing.
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“He fell quiet again and slumped back into his armchair with a lost, faraway look in his eyes, muttering in protest that he would never ever talk about it, that it was a story from a bygone age, that nothing was worth waking the dead.”
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