A curious bird of a book about loss and resilience that will etch itself on your heart before you realize it. It is funny, heartbreaking, ironic, poetic, inhabited, imaginative, inquisitive and raw. It pulses with warmth and intelligence and wit. An underrated and not well known beauty.

When you find out that Wim Wenders is adapting a novel for the screen, you need to read it. As much as the premise is wildly original and promising, the novel remained a little bit cold and clinical to me. Its intellect takes over its heart, which never bodes well for a love story.

One of the most amazing and fiery novels that I have ever read based on the life of a real person. Joyce Carol Oates brings Marilyn Monroe to life with such imaginative passion, humanity, sensitivity and precision that you will feel a heart beating underneath the myth. Superb.

A huge disappointment. The sentences were full of cliches, the characters felt like archetypes. I was expecting so much because I am obsessed with all things New York City but this didn't feel real to me at all.

This is where Knausgaard's genius lies. If you trust him, if you are willing to tread through the mundane and the sublime, you will be rewarded in ways you will never suspect. You will experience what it feels like to be in someone else's head, literally. This man is genius.

I will fail to do justice to the delicate nature of this book, its evasiveness, its frailty, its iridescence, its stupendous command of language. It changes like the weather, it fluctuates like the heart, it grows like a baby goshawk into its tremendous adult self. An absolutely wondrous book.

Jim Harrison's last collection of poems, full of grief and melancholy, will infuse your days with more light and passion and fire than anything else you've ever read. The last poem about a broken bridge above the sea will steal your heart forever. One of my favorite writers of all time.

The levels of understanding at work in our lives, the subterranean currents running beneath our feet, the invisible lines of luck and will crisscrossing in our midst, the inner life feeding the one we show to others and the ocean that lies between the two. This book contains multitudes. Fantastic!