The History of Love (14)

22 Jul 2006

Title: The History of Love: A Novel
Author: Nicole Krauss
Genre: Fiction

This book was heartbreaking. To quote a movie character "nothing is sadder than wasted potential" and the characters in this book suffered through lots of wasted potential. Potential love, potential success, potential lives, potential deaths. It's hard to know if I enjoyed this book or not. I am glad that I read it and it definitely touched me as I find myself quite sad whereas before I sat down to read it this afternoon I was quite happy. So I guess then yes, I enjoyed it.

Posted by Michelle on Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 3:46 PM

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