Gregisdead121 ’s Reviews > Ducks, Newburyport > Status Update

"the fact that the soldiers sent to kill the
Romanovs were armed with Colts, Mausers, Nagants and bayonets,
which makes them sound like most American citizens now actually, the
fact that the Romanov children wouldn’t die at first and had to be stabbed
and shot some more, the fact that how can people bring themselves to do
these things, so much blood,"

"the fact that he
always had a good sense of humor, Jake, even as a baby, the fact that
Jake was such a charmer, kicking his little legs and laughing all the time,
the fact that we must all be born happy, then learn to be sadder,"

"the fact that what is with this constant
monologue in my head, the fact that why am I telling myself all this stuff,
since I know it already, the fact that I knew it all before I said it to"

"the fact that I try to bear grudges but in the end
the original reason for it drifts away and I’m left with just a sort of
negative feeling about someone, but no evidence, and I don’t know
whether to carry on the grudge or not"

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

""Made forlorn by the ease of her
own ruin, the lioness longed for her own mother, now dead, and knew
she too might die soon, if not from this injury then another.
She limped for some time after."

I'm on my 3rd lioness P.O.V
I like the concept I just don't like how often it is deployed. Perhaps that's my own fault as I expected it to appear like segments marking a change in time or setting or mark the circling of a new idea that is about to take root for the next 100 or so pages but now it reads as a gimmick to make up for when she can't connect one stream of thought with the other. It seems crude

"The fact that I think
people are just trying not to think about their mothers, the fact that I think
that’s all anybody’s doing most of the time, the fact that nobody ever talks
about them, the fact that the
world seems indifferent to mothers, yet when they die it’s so empty, the
fact that Mommy’s illness broke me, broke me"