A review by marilynsaul
The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak

1.0

I'm half-way through and I'm just bored to death!!! Such long, tedious, overly-descriptive paragraphs, laden with example after example of whatever great wisdom the author wants to impart, treating the reader as if he/she is an imbecile and must have every possible nuance of her wisdom spelled out for such witless creatures - or is she just flattering herself? I've been trying to read this book every afternoon for three days, and, honest to dog, I've had more sleep during my reading afternoons than I get in a night time - I just keep nodding off during the droning. I've considered just setting it aside for awhile, but, quite honestly, there is no impetus to pick up this book again and soldier on. I'm done. I tried. Life is too short.