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A review by abrooklynbookshelf
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
4.0
3.5? 3.75? Hard to say with this one...I love Zadie Smith but I didn't actually love Swing Time as much as her others. I liked it, but not loved.
Zadie Smith is wildly intelligent and is a magnificent writer, so besides not being able to keep up sometimes, no complaints there. It's a fantastically written book.
My biggest thing was that I felt like moments I wanted to stay in were over so quickly; much of the story that had the most detail was the bigger picture, not the smaller moments that happened within that. And that bigger picture was a little bit repetitive, not 100% in a bad way, but it made it so that when a smaller storyline was brewing, that's what I wanted to focus on, and they were always over so fast, sometimes just in one sentence. It left me with this feeling that I was missing scenes, that there were these things happening in the lives of the characters that were happening and happened, yes, somewhere right in front of my face, but I missed them.
But, it is a great story and I'm glad I finally got the chance to read it.
Zadie Smith is wildly intelligent and is a magnificent writer, so besides not being able to keep up sometimes, no complaints there. It's a fantastically written book.
My biggest thing was that I felt like moments I wanted to stay in were over so quickly; much of the story that had the most detail was the bigger picture, not the smaller moments that happened within that. And that bigger picture was a little bit repetitive, not 100% in a bad way, but it made it so that when a smaller storyline was brewing, that's what I wanted to focus on, and they were always over so fast, sometimes just in one sentence. It left me with this feeling that I was missing scenes, that there were these things happening in the lives of the characters that were happening and happened, yes, somewhere right in front of my face, but I missed them.
But, it is a great story and I'm glad I finally got the chance to read it.