Books I have read with short reviews. Probably useful to no one, but I like to keep track of what I have read and found interesting.
Review:
Groff seems to have one voice: suffering. This novel is an ode to suffering with most of the varieties of suffering possible discussed. It is an unpleasant read, though well written.
Review:
This is an odd book. The story is rife with character development and the double entendre of "matrix" being a mother, a complicated situation, a way of looking at the labyrinth, and as a reference to the Virgin Mary makes the book rich. There are interesting perspectives (e.g. man is made of dust, but woman is made from bone) and it is interesting to view the miracles, visions, and church plans from the view of practicality and how these might be used to create a mystique that helps provide a supernatural grandeur to simple practicalities. I also really like the way that Groff has demonstrated how each character comes into her own and deals with the situations that each character faces becoming oddly religious as a result of their own failings.
