I picked this book up because it bore a gold seal saying "National Book Award." I don't understand why it won anything. The story is trite; the coincidence that I think is supposed to be the big WOW is pretty ho-hum; and the writing is not particularly good. I keep a notebook of meaningful quotations and just neat use of language that I find in the books I read, and this is the first book in a long time for which I made no entries. You may wonder why I'm even releasing it --- BUT it got really good reviews, and other folks have told me they liked it, so it's probably just me. I'd sure be interested to read other reactions.

RELEASE NOTES:

This was a good book! I was kind of skeptical of it at first, but I ended up not being able to put it down.

After reading Britlit's entry about it, I have to agree that I can't come up with any interesting quotes from the book. However, I just found the story facinating.