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A review by glenberger
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
3.0
DNF...
alas, after reading 1/3rd of it (300 pages), I don't see myself returning to it. The writing from sentence to sentence is lovely, and I greatly enjoyed Tokarczuk's "Drive Your Plow..."
But this one...The narrative isn't carrying me along. There are encounters, there are descriptions of characters and scenes, there's lots of entrancing atmosphere, but there isn't enough story to trigger that craving to return to the book. So after six months of other books pushing past it in the queue, I'm calling it.
alas, after reading 1/3rd of it (300 pages), I don't see myself returning to it. The writing from sentence to sentence is lovely, and I greatly enjoyed Tokarczuk's "Drive Your Plow..."
But this one...The narrative isn't carrying me along. There are encounters, there are descriptions of characters and scenes, there's lots of entrancing atmosphere, but there isn't enough story to trigger that craving to return to the book. So after six months of other books pushing past it in the queue, I'm calling it.