hbelle01's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
miss_tricia's review against another edition
3.0
I want to give this four stars, because it seemed like "literature," and smart people like literature, and I'm smart, right? But that's just posturing, if I'm honest. I didn't love Measuring time, but I did truly enjoy it. Measuring Time is well paced (good thing, or the title would be ironic) and filled with interesting characters. The story contains a lot of emotion, but never stoops to sentimentality. And there's both enough grit and enough light to make the book appealing to me at this stage of my life. And the culture the book describes is different enough from my own to make it deeply engrossing. Yay for Habila! Read the book!
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