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A review by nanaisha
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
5.0
" You are very good. A good painter and a good person. Be careful. The world is not nice to good people."
" Then be a great painter Asher Lev, that will be the only justification for all the pain you will cause"
this book was so good at the beginning and it became even better during. when I was on the last page of the book, the only thing I could think of was "wonderful"
this book is quite literally a masterpiece to me. the pacing from the beginning was okay, slowed down and bit and picked up again. there wasn't really a dull moment as the breaks in pace really felt like intermission preparing us for what came next. through out the book, there was this air of tension and suspense that just made me want to keep reading and reading and reading, and when I got to the last lap, I couldn't put the book down because of how I anxious I was to see what happened next. this is an absolute gem of a novel and honestly, books about artists when well done are my faves because anything about a photographer, painter, sculptor? I'm on my knees for it, so I was very happy reading this and I really really enjoyed it.
some of my notes while reading this
he had too much responsibility. he was just 11 and wad getting you're not responsible, other people's feelings. at that age I feel like a child's only responsibility is to be good and do well in school. you shouldn't have to worry so much about everyone else. I feel like that's one of the times in life that humans are actually entitled to be selfish
his parents, dad especially treated him like drawing was a disability instead of camly talking to him and making him learn to control his compulsiveness when it came to drawing
" Then be a great painter Asher Lev, that will be the only justification for all the pain you will cause"
this book was so good at the beginning and it became even better during. when I was on the last page of the book, the only thing I could think of was "wonderful"
this book is quite literally a masterpiece to me. the pacing from the beginning was okay, slowed down and bit and picked up again. there wasn't really a dull moment as the breaks in pace really felt like intermission preparing us for what came next. through out the book, there was this air of tension and suspense that just made me want to keep reading and reading and reading, and when I got to the last lap, I couldn't put the book down because of how I anxious I was to see what happened next. this is an absolute gem of a novel and honestly, books about artists when well done are my faves because anything about a photographer, painter, sculptor? I'm on my knees for it, so I was very happy reading this and I really really enjoyed it.
some of my notes while reading this
he had too much responsibility. he was just 11 and wad getting you're not responsible, other people's feelings. at that age I feel like a child's only responsibility is to be good and do well in school. you shouldn't have to worry so much about everyone else. I feel like that's one of the times in life that humans are actually entitled to be selfish
his parents, dad especially treated him like drawing was a disability instead of camly talking to him and making him learn to control his compulsiveness when it came to drawing