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Jonathan Stilz mrreell — This was an odd and interesting book. I'm not exactly sure that I liked it, but I'm glad I read it. It's about Ned Moon, spending a summer with friends at a country house in England; all is going well, and he is perfectly happy with himself and his life, until Marina, the wife of one of his dear friends, makes her appearance and Ned falls head-over-heels for her. The novel is a rather dream-like study of the effects of this passion on Ned's sense of himself, with much dissecting of emotions and a lot of beautiful descriptive prose. I didn't much like either Ned or Marina, but I think that's one of Strachey's points; passion happens to everyone, and in unexpected ways, and it is rarely convenient or pretty no matter how poetic its manifestations may appear to those caught in the moment. There's also a thread throughout the novel of the clash between Marina's very contemporary 1950s ideals, and the pre-WW2 ideals of Ned and his friends. Marina is desperately sincere, very concerned about the future; the friends are somewhat resigned to the life they've known fading, and while they condemn the terrible mass-produced foods and clothing worn by the working-class villagers, they make no real efforts to fight against the current of the times. As Strachey herself was fifty when the novel was written, and was very much of that upper-class world which was dissolving in the wake of the second World War, I found this the most fascinating part of the novel, along with the dialogue. From everything I've read about the Bloomsbury group, she captured their sort of witty, playful, occasionally obscene conversations perfectly.

Corinne Viana corinneviana — A truly fantastic book - couldn't put it down. Took a few chapters to get into it but Niffenegger's time-transcending love is hypnotic, painful, deep, and beautiful.

David Morcos _ave_ — ok, so i've been wanting to read this book, and so i finally got it to read, and it's good so far, but i'm finding that it's just a little hard to get into..... so i finally sat down and plowed through this book. it's good, really engaging actually (once you get past the beginning). i have some experience with someone that's dealt with addiction, and there were so many parts of the book where i was just like, man this is so true.....