Posts tagged Jonathan Safran Foer
Read This, Write That
Books you should read. Grammar you should know.
The books had been buried, so I hid this time behind a group of trees, I imagined their roots wrapped around books, pulling nourishment from the pages, I imagined rings of letters in their trunks.
(Source: icanhassilvia, via libraryland)
Read This.
Everything is Illuminated successfully juxtaposes roughly two time lines while using more than three distinct voices. If that alone doesn’t convince you that this is a must-read, well, I’m afraid you are either completely dead inside or you just hate awesomeness. In either case, I cannot help you.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I’d actually love to re-read this and The Passion simultaneously and draw comparisons. I’ve never really connected the two before, but there are some interesting similarities… but I digress.
This book is beautifully written. The structure is solid, so solid in fact that it becomes invisible, allowing the reader to get lost in the story. This does of course make the painful parts more painful, but great writing elicits emotion. What can you do? One of my favorite aspects of this book is the use of letters. Pay attention to the evolution of language from the first letter to the last. The attention to detail, something I’ve come to expect from JSF, makes me appreciate the amount of focused work that went into building this book.
