My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

The concept of this novel is wonderful.  I’ve seen it done before but never with such commitment.  What if you could experience the many alternate lives of an individual over the course of a life time.   See every life decision they made or did not make.  See their countless deaths based on where they were or what they did.  That’s what you get to do with Ursula Todd, a British woman born in 1910.  What makes this book work isn’t just that Kate Atkinson crafts a webbing of wonderful characters but that you get to see how characters change or don’t depending on the actions or inactions of the central character.   I adored this book and its writing which is superb.  A-
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