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Frontier
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The NYTimes asked a bunch of people to name the top 10 books of the 21st century and I thought hmm what are my top 10 and there it was in my head. Frontier. One of the most glorious confusing joyful reads of my entire life. Thank you Karen Gernant for translating these amazing words and making this novel available to me in my native language.
Here is the rest of my personal top 10 list, as of July 8 2024.
Here is the rest of my personal top 10 list, as of July 8 2024.
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"The bird was in a nearby nest; perhaps it had lost its children, or perhaps it was hurt, or perhaps nothing had happened. Or was it a pessimist by nature? From its voice, she could tell the bird was no longer young."
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Jul 08, 2024 03:47PM
Thanks for sharing your 10 best. Interestingly, Mantel’s Bringing Up the Bodies, is in their 81 to 100 group. Maybe your choice of Wolf Hall will be further down it.
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Kathleen wrote: "Thanks for sharing your 10 best. Interestingly, Mantel’s Bringing Up the Bodies, is in their 81 to 100 group. Maybe your choice of Wolf Hall will be further down it."I don't understand the choice of Bringing up the Bodies over Wolf Hall at all! The glorious voice of Cromwell, the complete reimagining of a character that was the bad guy in "A Man for All Seasons," was such genius, and the story is so much more complicated in the first book. What a masterpiece.
I want to read this one again! I agree with you that’s it’s so amazing.
What amazed me, what I can’t remember ever happening in any other book I’ve read, is the way some image or phrase would captivate me so much that I would want to preserve it, and quote it…but it was impossible because the magnifence of one image would cascade into the next one on the page over and over so basically you I’d need to quote the whole book by the end. There was no letting up of magnificence. I feel weird writing that when so many people I know found it to be a bore but, oh well, it fit my brain perfectly.
