June Pecchia > Recent Status Updates

I am moved to write about Less as he leaves Berlin.

Whoa. Andrew Sean Greer, you inspire me to try to imagine fabricating a world as visceral as you have in this novel.

If unsure whether to read this book, read the description of present-day Berlin in the wee hours on pages p. 122-124 and I dare you not to go back and start page 1.

Just after is the story of Less' departure from a Bavarian lover...

Had to return it to the library! I'll get back to it again.

Just not the right book for me now. Put it away for some later date.

Still have the signed book... inspirational to see Hillary Clinton in person at Warwick's Books last year. I started to read it, and found it interesting but not compelling enough to keep me at it in the midst of dealing with family crises. Now, in 2017, I'm so disheartened by the election outcome... I wonder how one of my heroes is managing to put her life into next phase... I just can't pick up again book yet.

As I approach the last thirty-some pages of The Unnecessary Woman, I am stricken with the need to see some photos of a central character: the city of Beirut, Lebanon. Alameddine's narrator "...Aaliyah, the high one, the above..." describes the city with the intimacy and empathy of a native, a trapped native. Youtube, I find, has many a paean of love to Beirut. Watching a few gives me a sense of place.