Thursday, December 27, 2018

The Branch, by Eugene Lim

The author of The Branch is a librarian, and the conceit of the library as a central experience is very much the focus here.  You go there for answers, for therapy, for a religious experience, to disconnect.  Nice try, and I think libraries will actually continue to be relevant in a way like this but less over the top.  But this is a bit overdone.

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Circe, by Madeline Miller

So I got through this very long exercise, but it never grabbed me at all. I couldn't work up much sympathy for our namesake protagonist....