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“It’s like copying truths from God’s notebook, though we aren’t always sure where to find this notebook or when it will be open.”"
What a simply told, yet wonderful story. It is about the inherent beauty of mathematics, the marvels of baseball and the importance of human relationships.
This is a novella where:
An argument can be resolved by writing and gifting a perfect mathematical formula.
Close friendships are formed with a man who can never remember you.
Two baseball fans, bond over two different generations of the same team.
I have found myself happily lost in this story while reading. Ignoring the milling crowds of tourists waiting to go into the Theatre one Saturday night, in order to read just a few more pages. Reading late that night on the bus home. Snatching moments for the story that I should have spent doing other things.
I recommend this for anyone who likes simple stories about human relationships
What a simply told, yet wonderful story. It is about the inherent beauty of mathematics, the marvels of baseball and the importance of human relationships.
This is a novella where:
An argument can be resolved by writing and gifting a perfect mathematical formula.
Close friendships are formed with a man who can never remember you.
Two baseball fans, bond over two different generations of the same team.
I have found myself happily lost in this story while reading. Ignoring the milling crowds of tourists waiting to go into the Theatre one Saturday night, in order to read just a few more pages. Reading late that night on the bus home. Snatching moments for the story that I should have spent doing other things.
I recommend this for anyone who likes simple stories about human relationships
400 pages of Dread followed by the inevitable conclusion. As one of the characters states - "sometimes dead is better'.
This one is recommended for those who like the thrill of a scary haunted house story. Its very strong on plot combining a serial killer haunted hotel, a mystery and lots and lots of action. This cries out to be a movie and it would be spectacular as such.
Personally, I prefer more characterisation and atmosphere build up but I have to admit that Darcy Coates has done an excellent job in plain out writing a haunted house story designed to scare you our of your booties.
Recommended to anyone who thinks that Stephen King’s The Shining was far too slow paced and that the Hotel needed MORE GHOSTS!
Personally, I prefer more characterisation and atmosphere build up but I have to admit that Darcy Coates has done an excellent job in plain out writing a haunted house story designed to scare you our of your booties.
Recommended to anyone who thinks that Stephen King’s The Shining was far too slow paced and that the Hotel needed MORE GHOSTS!
Who knew there were so many interesting, weird and wacky trees in Ireland. This one was so good I ordered my own copy. Is it here yet?
Loved this! What a way to tell your autobiography. More, please. What do you mean the library doesn’t have volume three? Great way to start the #ReadtheMiddleEast readathon.
Dark, disturbing yet devastatingly beautiful. My third And other Stories subscription book and my favourite to date.
The remainder is a tale of three broken children, now all grown up, a city smothered in ash and the meanings and weights of language and words.
Felipe tells us his story in single sentences the length of chapters. He sees dead bodies everywhere and is slowly subtracting them down until he finds the remainder.
Iquela, an English language translator, is obsessed with Paloma, a child more of her parents past and memories than her own. I admit she made me a little obsessed with Paloma too.
Then one day a pisco (brandy) swilling, chain-smoking Paloma turns up in Chile to bury her mother Ingrid. Like a fairytale, ash falls on Santiago and the body gets diverted to Argentina. All three travel over the Cordillera and back into their pasts to retrieve the body.
This book is recommended to readers who love language, appreciate translators and who were not overly disturbed by violent imagery (if you didn’t mind Han Kang’s the Vegetarian you will probably be okay).
I should hate this book for the parrot scene alone (I own parakeets/budgies) but I love it.
The remainder is a tale of three broken children, now all grown up, a city smothered in ash and the meanings and weights of language and words.
Felipe tells us his story in single sentences the length of chapters. He sees dead bodies everywhere and is slowly subtracting them down until he finds the remainder.
Iquela, an English language translator, is obsessed with Paloma, a child more of her parents past and memories than her own. I admit she made me a little obsessed with Paloma too.
Then one day a pisco (brandy) swilling, chain-smoking Paloma turns up in Chile to bury her mother Ingrid. Like a fairytale, ash falls on Santiago and the body gets diverted to Argentina. All three travel over the Cordillera and back into their pasts to retrieve the body.
This book is recommended to readers who love language, appreciate translators and who were not overly disturbed by violent imagery (if you didn’t mind Han Kang’s the Vegetarian you will probably be okay).
I should hate this book for the parrot scene alone (I own parakeets/budgies) but I love it.
