Progress: 6 down, 14 to go Which: Tinkers, Paul Harding Fun fact! This is the 2nd Pulitzer Prize-winner I’ve read this summer (the first: The Road, 2007). It’s a little deceptive at a scant 192 pages: I took more than a week to finish. It’s rare for the protagonist to have more knowledge than the reader and rarer still, I think, for it to be done really well: Harding fully expects you keep up with when and where the story is. I liked the periodic flashes of understanding as the book rolls ever forward. (This wasn’t on the second list, but after the book followed me around to every book store I entered for 2 weeks, I bought it and got to reading.)

Progress: 6 down, 14 to go

Which: Tinkers, Paul Harding

Fun fact! This is the 2nd Pulitzer Prize-winner I’ve read this summer (the first: The Road, 2007). It’s a little deceptive at a scant 192 pages: I took more than a week to finish.

It’s rare for the protagonist to have more knowledge than the reader and rarer still, I think, for it to be done really well: Harding fully expects you keep up with when and where the story is. I liked the periodic flashes of understanding as the book rolls ever forward.

(This wasn’t on the second list, but after the book followed me around to every book store I entered for 2 weeks, I bought it and got to reading.)

6 Sep 2010   2 notes   [ books readering 20 by NYE ]
  1. tiffehr said: May I borrow? DM coming shortly about some La Carre ePubs.
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