Journal Entry 1 by SqueakyChu from Rockville, Maryland USA on Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The book was chosen at The Book Thing of Baltimore. 

Journal Entry 2 by SqueakyChu at Gaithersburg City Hall Concert Pavilion and Grounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Monday, April 25, 2011

Released 1 yr ago (5/21/2011 UTC) at Gaithersburg City Hall Concert Pavilion and Grounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA

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This book is being released at the Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.


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Journal Entry 3 by melydia at Centreville, Virginia USA on Monday, May 30, 2011

Picked this up at the Gaithersburg Book Festival. I started listening to it on audio months ago, but at the 5th disc it became too scratched to listen to, so I had to give it up. Now that I have the paperback version I hope to pick it back up at some point. 

Journal Entry 4 by melydia at Centreville, Virginia USA on Tuesday, February 28, 2012

I wanted, so desperately, to like this novel. But the fact of the matter is that I found it tremendously tedious. Though the back cover blurb talks of young Briony’s mistaken accusation regarding her cousin’s sexual assault and its horrible consequences, this event does not actually happen until about halfway through the book. The plot is buried in page after page of literary navel-gazing, and the “twist” ending put me off so much that I wondered why I’d wasted all that time getting there. I suspect the movie is tidier, assuming it leaves out such thrilling passages as Briony pondering the possibility of her not being the star of everyone else’s life story while watching her finger bend back and forth. The writing itself was fine - the description quite vivid, the language very, er, literary - but I found the whole thing tiresome and I frankly can’t understand why so many rave about this lengthy piece of rambling blather. 

Journal Entry 5 by melydia at Day of the Book (street festival) on Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA on Saturday, April 21, 2012

Released 1 mo ago (4/22/2012 UTC) at Day of the Book (street festival) on Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing this at the International Day of the Book festival in Kensington, Maryland, where BCinDC will be giving away free books.