![]() In my opinion, this book (and his writing in general) is a constant mesh of his need to be clever and impressive getting in the way of actual meaning. ![]() It says a lot that I haven’t read anything of his since the first book I tried ( Everything is Illuminated, back in 2010), and even as I gave that book four stars, my Goodreads review of it says, “I feel like what this book is telling me is that Jonathan Safran Foer is a good writer, and he knows it.”(I would not have given it four stars today.) That feeling has only intensified. I’m just really skeptical of Jonathan Safran Foer*. I had a surprisingly hard time finding books to fit this description, and none other than this one I already owned. I’ve owned this for oh, about thirteen years? Back when I still thought I had to read books other people thought were “good” and “important.” And b) because of CBR Bingo, in which the Nostalgia square meant finding a book set during the time in which I was in high school. ![]() ![]() I picked this book up because a) I’ve owned it forever and pandemic reading has meant trying hard to find books off my own shelves. ![]()
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