The Life before Her Eyes

I can't resist writing a review of this novel. It's the kind of book I want to share with people, just so I can hear what they think of it. The concept is brilliant, and the many mysteries in the narrative completely hooked me. But I did not love the writing itself. A few nice moments, but too often......more

SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! *** ^ don't say I didn't warn you: SPOILER ALERT! This book is SO FREAKING AMAZING. I'm a poet myself, and if you're a literary type, you can appreciate the beautiful language that sort of blooms in your head as you digest it, swallow its lyrical cadence lik......more

Laura Kasischke's The Life Before Her Eyes is quite a remarkable book. I picked it up well over a year ago on the recommendation of an independent bookstore owner, and read the prologue when I got home, knowing I was in the middle of a couple of other books at the time, but still wanting to get a ta......more

This book made me want to be a high school English teacher so that I could discuss it with teenagers. It struck me as being an excellent book to use to discuss the author's choices (past tense vs. present tense, pronouns vs. names); the choices are deliberate and add to our sense of what's going on.......more