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it's the simple, lyrical prose that pushes the book. we all, even those living what seem to be plain lives, have problems, and Haruf artfully shows how people deal.

Definitely the worst of Sebold's work. I anticipated better from her.

Ok, maybe like 1,5. But seriously, I feel like I've read a different book from everybody else that rated it. Don't think I'll be continuing with the series.

The book I read did not have this dumb cover. But it was a great dumb love story (that takes place in Italy! Wow!), and if you are going to the beach, you should just go ahead and take this one with you.

Even though I know this is a great book, I'm not a huge fan. Maybe it's because I hate rats. I can't articulate the real reason...I usually really like novels about dystopias. I think it might have to do with the fact that the others I've read maintain at least a shred of hope. Here, though, there's none. There's no redemption, there's no humanity, just constant paranoia and persecution. I appreciate it as a piece of literature, but I didn't like it.

The characters in this Ruth Rendell psychological thriller live in a world of their own. Mix Cellini is obsessed with a beautiful model, Nerissa Nash, to the point of becoming a stalker. The obsessive-compulsive Cellini spins his fantasies and sinks deeper and deeper into madness. Cellini's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer, is an elderly spinster who spends her days and nights immersed in books and who has her own obsession, a doctor she once had a "relationship" with 50 years ago and didn't extend beyond tea and cakes at her house after his visits to her ailing mother. To watch these main characters careen towards disaster was unsettling. While this book doesn’t have the same suspense as a true mystery, it is just as compelling.