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Julie Trudel _ulie_rudel — Although I learned a lot about gypsies (since I knew next to nothing) this book left a great deal to be desired. My book group wasn't happy that I chose this book for last month's book group discussion - we felt this author had an amazing topic to bring to an interested audience but just didn't deliver. We were impressed with her travels and that she lived with a gyspy family but her writing seemed torpid to us. I know several of my friends outside of my book group loved this book so it came with a strong recommendation but was rated a low three by all twelve members of my book group.

Ju Sungbin jukeke — Of all of the books that I’ve read recently this was definitely the best. This thriller has an interesting set of characters and is full of exciting plot twists. The main character, Katniss, is a teenage girl who lives in District 12 of Panem (what becomes of North America in the future) with her mother and younger sister Prim. Every year the capital of Panem hosts the hunger games. For these games 2 tributes from each district, a boy and a girl, are chosen at random to compete on behalf of their district. All of the tributes are taken to the capital for training and then dropped in an arena to fight to the death until there is only one left. When it is time to find out who will be the tributes of District 12 that year, Peeta, the son of a local baker, and Prim are chosen. Unable to fathom the thought of watching her younger sister be killed or possibly starve to death, Katniss volunteers to take Prim’s place. When the tributes arrive in the capital, they go through training in order to find their fighting talents. After Katniss impresses everyone with her training score of 11 out of 12 (the highest score that anyone has ever received), the tributes are interviewed. In Peeta’s interview he reveals a secret that will change the games forever!

Mario San _anano2012 — Tinkers is a story about George Crosby and his father, Howard. Howard's story is very straightforward, told as it unfolds, as he tries to support his family as a traveling salesman. George's story involves more of an analysis of his deteriorating state prior to his death, and his observations of his surrounding, along with some meditations on life. Ultimately, the novel serves as a somber tribute to the idea of a "family", and how the relationships have ebbs and flows as time passes. I purchased Tinkers because it won the Pullitzer Prize a few years ago. The reading experience reminded me of reading Cold Mountain, as both novels were difficult to get into, but were satisfying reads. Tinkers is written in the vein of the canonical texts that I had to read in high school and college, which made it palatable and made me pine for my days as a student. While the narrative flow and structure were confusing and distracting at times, I thought the author's prose was stunningly beautiful. In fact, there were many instances where I had to stop and reread certain passages because the writing was that impressive. If I ever decide to reread the novel, I am going to read it one sitting. The structure of the novel demands a straight reading.

Timoty Gray graytimotyeb97 — At first the denseness and humourlessness of the book proved a bit hard to get into, the anti-hero Lee Harvey Oswald is really hard to like... He started to get under my skin though, and a few chapters later I was feeling sorry for him as prospective fall guy. What a litany of depressing characters! Reflecting the American Dream to do whatever you want to do, although it may involve self-importance and dangerous acts... The men who DeLillo imagines were responsible for coming up with this grand plot to scare a nation with an attempt on the life a leader watch as their plan starts to take on such a cancerous life beyond them, and still take part and push it along its locus. It is a solemn book in every respect, and Lee's essentially humanist at the core beliefs get subverted and changed as he joins the navy and then flees to communist Russia seeking asylum. Many facts of his life I did not know until reading the book, and I am not sure how closely the author researched (I get the feeling it was very deeply) but Lee's mother and every character close to him is drawn so believably, as s neurotic lady with so many chips on her shoulder about life. So much of the depiction of his life at that time in USA makes me upset about the conditions and influences unkind to those of less social standing. Bullied, hung upside down by navy roughnecks, for his weediness or his interest in Marxism, Lee nevertheless keeps an amazing faith in "Little Cuba" and personal freedom. Unfortunately there are many who want to use this unique person, exploit his sympathies and weaknesses, and these characters are creepily drawn by DeLillo, the character who cannot seem to register in his head that his oven is definitely off and it's safe to sleep, or the cruel gunmen who join him and finish the job on the fateful day in Dallas. The last third of the book is quite eerily clever, lining up coincidences and showing the dark consciousness of someone on unstable mental ground. Lee goes by his aliases, including Hidell (Hide the L) and Leon, or O. H. Lee, and halfheartedly tries to hide evidence which will so obviously bring him down. His impassive brutality developing through the book even to the only people close to him, show the disintegration of a young man in pathetic and brutal grey. A really difficult but worthwhile, unafraid and masterful novel.