Steno Padilla Padilla itibaren Kosamkheda, Madhya Pradesh, India
Talky.
** spoiler alert ** January Assignment for the Booksquirm Book Club: Read to the scene break on p. 25 Is anyone else as utterly confused as I am with this book? His mother is a washing machine, his father is a mountain – he has siblings that are Russian nesting dolls? At first I was thinking this was symbolism, but later it seems like his parents really ARE a mountain and a washing machine. Also, a little confused why “Alan” goes by seemingly any name beginning with the letter “A.” Hopefully that will be explained later. This book is W-E-I-R-D, and unfortunately I’m just not getting it! Don't get me wrong, I like the style - and having heard Doctorow speak at ALA... twice... I was really interested in reading one of his books. But I just don't get it.... February Assignment: Read to the scene break on p. 48 Yep, still a "meh" to me. While I liked it a little more than I did the last go round, I just am not into the story as much as I want to be. I understand what he is doing with the names (A,B,C,D) I'm just not being able to keep the ever-changing character names in my head as to what wacky and ridiculous character-type they link to. This is making it hard, as a reader, to be able to follow the plot when you are constantly trying to figure out who/what these characters are. March Assignment: Read to the scene break on p. 72 I know that some members of the book club think this book is great, but I have to admit that I am hopelessly lost and keep forgetting who is a nesting doll and who/what Davie is. And now it's more characters with the same first letter of the name to make things even more confusing. Yeah, I'm just not a fan, even tho I really want to like it. April Assignment: Read to the scene break on p. 101 For the love of all things holy, as if the perpetual name changing isn't enough, we have seemingly ranndom timeline shifts! I'm hopelessly loss and have resigned myself to slogging through until this book is blissfully voted off. Blissfully, this book was voted off in April!