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One of my favorite books. The charachter Mr Winkler often is in my thoughts. It is a story of remorse, of growth, of change, and of love. I recommend this to anyone. The text is beautifully written. The characters are deeply defined. I loved every word, and was so sad to see the end.
Yikes. Its hard to believe this is by the same author as the emotional, and beautifully written "All the Light We Cannot See". I adored the writing, as I expected I would. It was beautifully crafted and incredibly evocative. But, there's only so much beautiful and evocative you can take before you start itching for some plot. 3 Stars
"I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.” -- Hamlet An awful gift, a dreadful mistake, half a lifetime of doldrums and then repentance form the arc of this first novel by Anthony Doerr, whose second All the Light We Cannot See has been a near-universal favorite in 2014. I recommended About Grace very highly when I first read it, though stinting one star on goodreads because I haven’t yet given five to any fiction (except hum...
Having read All The Light We Cannot See and, like many, thinking it was beautiful, I picked up the authors debut with high expectations. Conversely, I just couldn’t enjoy this one. What made Doerrs’ writing so captivating in his Pulitzer Prize winning book just didn’t work here. It was overly descriptive and by forty percent in I was getting frustrated with the lack of plot development. It’s very, very rare that one author can divide me so much. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend All The Light We
About Grace was my first reading experience of Anthony doerr's books and sadly it was a bit of an underwhelming read. Some parts of it was good and I could see he is a talented writer, but neither the story or characters stranded out for me. Might still read something else by him though before I decide if he's an author for me or not
After reading All the Light We Cannot See, which I found thought-provoking and beautifully written, I wanted to read more of Doerr's work. The title "About Grace" looked promising, so I downloaded it. But the book didn't hold a candle (hoho) to All the Light We Cannot See. Some of the prose was lovely, although not as spectacular as the prose in All the Light We Cannot See. But I was as happy to see About Grace end as I was sorry to see the end of All the Light We Cannot See. I found the protago...
About Grace is the first novel from Boise, Idaho based author, Anthony Doerr. He previously published a collection of short stories, The Shell Collector, which were both moving and gorgeous. One of the qualities of the stories contained in The Shell Collector, i.e., each story's deep connection to the natural world in which it takes place, actually becomes one of the chief weaknesses in About Grace.About Grace opens as its protagonist, David Winkler, a fifty-nine-year-old scientist, especially f...
Languid. This is a languid book requiring the reader to lower their metabolism to match the flow of the page. If the reader can do this, if the reader can build patience, then a world of graceful prose will be the reward.The mythology of the Great Flood still lives in our heads. The fear and awe of water and waves and violent whitecaps. "We live in the beds of ancient oceans." Water and its transformation into snowflakes form the basis of this novel. The water in each of us that longs to return
Astounding. Eloquent. As good as or perhaps better than All the Light...but if you're not a science-type or do not revel in small intricacies of nature, you might just disagree. I'd also add that being a parent probably adds to the connection between the reader and this beautiful story. Not a mom or pop? That's okay. The people who found this too long or became tired of the meaning behind snow crystals and water molecules and the way insects can survive near-death are fine readers, I'm sure, but...
This book tells the story of David Winkler, a man who has dreams that are premonitions of the future. It was beautifully written with amazing imagery of the diverse settings of the novel. In Winkler's attempts to escape his dreams he travels from the Caribbean to Alaska and Doerr describes both of these settings in beautiful almost magical detail. Water and snow become the most amazingly complex and beautiful things in Doerr's writing. Other reviewers have stated that while the writing was beaut...
I am not exactly sure why I struggled to get into this novel, but I really did. It was as if I was watching the story through the wrong end of the telescope, or as if there was a dense fog between me and the characters. Or maybe it was a sort of veil that muted their voice, a veil created by the author trying just a bit too hard to write a literary novel rather than to tell a story. The protagonist periodically has a dream that is replicated exactly in reality in subsequent days. When the events...
