Comments for The Keepin' It Real Book Club http://kirbc.wordpress.com Bookish meanderings, rants and raves from book nerds gone digital. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:47:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway by A Robinson http://kirbc.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/the-cellist-of-sarajevo-by-steven-galloway/#comment-462 A Robinson Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:47:05 +0000 http://kirbc.wordpress.com/?p=921#comment-462 Galloway published a well known story about the destruction of Sarajevo and its people - nothing new or original there. He has not even been to the city! I don't believe his intention was to tell us a new story about it - we already knew all this by the time his book was published - so many films and documentaries covering similar situations of Sarajevans and their stories trying to get across the city to get food or water whilst being shot at have been made well before Mr Galloway's book. His only motive appears to be to capitalise on the horrors that this city has been through! It's also unbelievable that he did not even bother to consult the real cellist Mr Smailovic or ask for his approval to portray him in the book . Galloway published a well known story about the destruction of Sarajevo and its people – nothing new or original there.
He has not even been to the city!

I don’t believe his intention was to tell us a new story about it – we already knew all this by the time his book was published – so many films and documentaries covering similar situations of Sarajevans and their stories trying to get across the city to get food or water whilst being shot at have been made well before Mr Galloway’s book. His only motive appears to be to capitalise on the horrors that this city has been through! It’s also unbelievable that he did not even bother to consult the real cellist Mr Smailovic or ask for his approval to portray him in the book .

]]> Comment on One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, by Rebecca Mead by B.Kienapple http://kirbc.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/one-perfect-day-the-selling-of-the-american-wedding-by-rebecca-mead/#comment-461 B.Kienapple Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:15:49 +0000 http://kirbc.wordpress.com/?p=1119#comment-461 I find the best books are those that frame what we already know and bring it into our consciousness fully formed. Reading this book was a major event for me and a liberating one at that. I found it a bit odd that the author had a wedding at all, though, even if it was on her own terms. I suppose one can't completely reinvent the wheel. Great review, as always! I find the best books are those that frame what we already know and bring it into our consciousness fully formed. Reading this book was a major event for me and a liberating one at that.

I found it a bit odd that the author had a wedding at all, though, even if it was on her own terms. I suppose one can’t completely reinvent the wheel.

Great review, as always!

]]> Comment on The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood by JK http://kirbc.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-year-of-the-flood-by-margaret-atwood/#comment-460 JK Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:45:06 +0000 http://kirbc.wordpress.com/?p=1131#comment-460 Thanks for the clarification, Eileen. Thinking back to O & C, the timelines are pretty close. Thanks for the clarification, Eileen. Thinking back to O & C, the timelines are pretty close.

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