In most ways, the novel contained important commentary on life during a war and the daily struggles that slowly weigh you down, but in others, it felt like I wasn’t taking the right things away from it. For the first part of this book, I almost felt that I was missing something. Her sentence structure […]
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The Time of the Doves, reading about war here felt different in comparison to what I expected or usually read. Instead of focusing on the big picture like the battle scenes or larger consequences of the war, it focuses on the tiny details of everyday life that people usually seem to skip past – loss, […]
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I’m seeing a pattern here with all these novels, the protaganists are just surviving every single god damn time and it’s always so emotionally heavy. The Time of the Doves left me feeling that emotional heaviness. Not because it was confusing or structurally difficult, but because of how quietly devastating it is. Everything happens slowly, […]
I really didn’t like Quimet lol. He did not make a good impression on me. I sensed that he was bad news from the get-go, and poor Natalia ended up being swept off her feet by him. It hurt my soul. The nickname was cute at first, but it became annoying …
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I really didn’t like Quimet lol. He did not make a good impression on me. I sensed that he was bad news from the get-go, and poor Natalia ended up being swept off her feet by him. It hurt my soul. The nickname was cute at first, but it became annoying …
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Reading this book was a pain. Natalia’s stream of consciousness was worse than Proust- I think I enjoyed proust better. I swear there was like 20 pages of her just describing the bourgeois family’s house. I know the tiny details contribute to the setting and placing the reader, but the book was the slowest 200 […]
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage.First of all, I hope all of you had a restful reading break, and enjoyed reading The Time of the Doves. As per usual, I find myself sitting down to write a little before making it to the end of the novel…
Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage.First of all, I hope all of you had a restful reading break, and enjoyed reading The Time of the Doves. As per usual, I find myself sitting down to write a little before making it to the end of the novel…
I really loved this read.
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I actually really liked The Time of the Doves, and it has probably been the easiest book for me to read so far. Not because it is light, because it definitely is not, but because the writing flows so naturally. It feels like someone is sitting across from you telling you their life story in […]
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