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A review by jwmcoaching
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
3.0
I was pretty torn about this one; I gave it a three but I had some reservations about doing that. The only thing I had previously read by Bloom was last year's, Lucky Us, which I really enjoyed. I had more mixed feelings about this.
There were two really good stories here, the first one and the last. The rest are a mixture of good and simply okay. I felt like a couple of them (Night Vision and Hold Tight) could've been expanded on and seemed somewhat half-baked because of it.
Bloom is actually an incredibly good writer. I seem to have more of a problem with her plots; in addition to the fact that even in her longer stories, her characters seem slightly out of reach. They come across as being hermetically sealed in a privileged world where I can't quite reach them.
There were two really good stories here, the first one and the last. The rest are a mixture of good and simply okay. I felt like a couple of them (Night Vision and Hold Tight) could've been expanded on and seemed somewhat half-baked because of it.
Bloom is actually an incredibly good writer. I seem to have more of a problem with her plots; in addition to the fact that even in her longer stories, her characters seem slightly out of reach. They come across as being hermetically sealed in a privileged world where I can't quite reach them.