What did you read this year?
Bill’s
average rating for
2023
4.5
4.5
This little quiet book slowly engulfed me with each chapter, the poignant revelation of how we perform our lives till the lines between reality and our inner thoughts blur. This is the case for the three perspectives we follow as they watch a Samuel Beckett play. Margot, Ivy, and Summer ( Early Seventies, Early Forties, and Early twenties respectively) as they comfortably or uncomfortably follow the play let us into their lives tinged with all th
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Oh, Ruth... How you've won my heart
Following two stories: Ruth ( a writer, residing on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest comes across a Hello Kitty lunch box washed up on the beach that contains a diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao we sort of follow both their lives through this small connection
A tale with an epistolary element between two women from different timelines sort of existing as one was beautifully thought o ...more
Following two stories: Ruth ( a writer, residing on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest comes across a Hello Kitty lunch box washed up on the beach that contains a diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao we sort of follow both their lives through this small connection
A tale with an epistolary element between two women from different timelines sort of existing as one was beautifully thought o ...more