Book #113 |
Book: No Two Persons | Author: Erica Bauermeister | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Print |
Pages: 314 | Duration: 11/21/25 – 11/23/25 (4 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: literary fiction, books about books, interconnectedness | ||
| 📕10-word summary: No two people experience Alice’s book in the same way. 🖌6-word review: Refreshing exploration of a book’s “life.” |
|||
| 💭A favorite quote: “She’d be OK, he told himself, and he needed to be somewhere else. Somewhere so completely else that the grief wouldn’t find him. Ignoring the fact that grief is not a stalker but a stowaway, always there and up for any journey.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: pill bug, blinkered, blowzily, selkie, hardtack | |||
| Description:* Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective and presents new pathways forward for their lives.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s a refreshing look at how a book is experienced by different readers — still affecting different people in different ways 9 or 10 years after its publication. In addition to learning of each character’s discovery of the book and how it affects their life, an interconnectedness emerges between several of the characters and the book’s author — and then among the readers. This was a Mostly Social Book Club book, chosen by Mary. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
