Thursday, January 26, 2006

2006 book 14

kristen allio's garner
some book blog or another recommended this, and the library actually had it, so i checked it out. and it started off strong--1925, new hampshire (the titular small town), the local postman discovers a young local girl's body in a pond in the woods. and then it sort of weaves in and out, focusing briefly on random characters in the town, and you think that as more is revealed the mystery will become clear, but it doesn't! i mean, the killer is revealed, but there are a lot of things left hanging. plus there are random paragraphs in parentheses, which greatly annoyed me. i absolutely hated the writing style, which was really dull--i think allio was trying to imitate 19th century writing, but didn't quite make it. i have another book recommended by whatever blog it was, but now i'm not sure i'll bother reading it.

3 comments:

pinky pinkerson said...

i'm so disappointed that it isn't *set* in Garner. I mean come on - Garner!

Have you read Paul Auster? The EW article I read on him a week or two ago has piqued my interest.

Alicia K. said...

our garner is definitely better than this fictional one.

i haven't read auster's latest--it's been getting mixed reviews--but i loooove him. one of his books was in my top ten of 05! i have four or five of his books if you want to borrow one.

pinky pinkerson said...

I definitely do!