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A review by goodem9199
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
1.0
I only gave it one star for the references to Children's Librarianship that I live every day. This book went NOWHERE...which is funny because the entire story is made up of the characters going everywhere (geographically speaking)
I will say that I liked the author's point of view on the religious right who cherry pick the Bible to suit their own ignorance and prejudices. My favorite line was about those who ignore the parts that say “you can’t ever eat pork or shellfish, and women should cover their heads, and you can’t plant two crops in the same field," yet will live and die by the next line that says two men can't love each other.
I had high hopes for this, but I hated the main character, the young boy who was supposedly homosexual and running from a wacko religious cult bent on making him straight, was just annoying. The Russian mobster family was shallow and boring. The more I write this review, the more I realize how much I seriously disliked this book. So there.
I will say that I liked the author's point of view on the religious right who cherry pick the Bible to suit their own ignorance and prejudices. My favorite line was about those who ignore the parts that say “you can’t ever eat pork or shellfish, and women should cover their heads, and you can’t plant two crops in the same field," yet will live and die by the next line that says two men can't love each other.
I had high hopes for this, but I hated the main character, the young boy who was supposedly homosexual and running from a wacko religious cult bent on making him straight, was just annoying. The Russian mobster family was shallow and boring. The more I write this review, the more I realize how much I seriously disliked this book. So there.