Sunday, April 22, 2007

2007 book 53

A.L. Kennedy's Day
Normally I love Kennedy's novels--she's a beautiful writer--but I just couldn't get into this one. I'm not really sure why--the protagonist was really sympathetic, a WWII vet who spent time in a POW camp, and after the war ends up working as an extra in a movie about a POW camp . . . maybe it was the way every chapter flashed back and forth in time, and it seemed like things were missing and didn't quite fit together, and the love interest wasn't really characterized in any way (which may have been the point, since it's all about the protagonist's thought process). At any rate, I wasn't that into it, as much as it pains me to say so. B.

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