This is my FAVORITE book I've read this year. Easily top 5 of all my life. If you'll take any of my recommendations, dear blog reader (aka probably just Marimar by this point), please read this book.
It is a strange concoction. It goes into the mind of an old, old, dying Polish man, and a curious and sad Jewish-American teenager, and throughout the book you read the book called The History of Love.
I picked this book because I was looking for beautiful quotes about love and I found, "once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." It took my heart, rattled it, and called me. Immediately I looked for the book on Amazon. I just thought, whoever understands love like this, I have to read the rest of their views.
I loved finding out that Krauss later said she thinks she has a responsibility to write so that we can capture the world.... or something like that. That's how I feel most days. I see beautiful things around me and I want to capture them. I want to write about them - share them, make sure they are not lost. Maybe not everyone feels like this. Maybe some artists do? Is it our fight against immortality?
The whole book is riddled with beautiful quotes. I want to read it again, highlight them, and maybe even write them down myself.
This book reminded me of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer- I read it for my Senior "thesis." Perhaps it's because both books have Jewish ancestry- I wonder if this style resembles more Jewish books written in their own language? I wonder if their way of seeing the world- because of their past- allows them to write so beautifully... or if it's just these two authors so far that have the insane capability to capture surrealism in an understanding of the world.
Pages: 272
total: 5813
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