Status Updates From Three Short Novels: The Cra...

Fantastic. I trust this author with my life.

Was unprepared for the astonishing texture.

Okay, false alarm, broke through the wall.

Skipped ahead and read "The Bridegroom's Body" (very good) and "Decision" (fairly good), but for some reason I can't seem to focus on "The Crazy Hunter." Keep starting over with that marvelous first chapter, but the second chapter feels like running into a wall. Thump. Help.

"He seemed a young man, but against the shining nimbus of the aperture, his features could not be clearly seen. He lay on his belly, both elbows propped under him, his head and shoulders dark against the golden light."

How beautiful words can sound and the images they carry, as well as trying to stall getting to the end of this book.

Boyle creates the visual through the sounds of her words blending in their rhythm, her brushstroke. Each word carries the uncovering of further meaning.
“… the whole restless malevolent estate abandoned to the willfulness of wind and rain and the seabirds’ scavenging and to the willfulness of purely male desire.”

4 stars but she moves steadily, never reaching, towards a 5th. Beneath the staid, articulate style, lays a bin of explosives?

So I just read page 70 four times in a row because I could not quite fathom how incredible it was. When she lets herself go her prose is simply breathtakingly good.

Been looking forward to this. When Nathan, Prou and Kris all agree on the greatness of a text, it really is a no-brainer.

Decision