A review by donitaluz
Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott
5.0
I couldn't finish a single book in years!!! Happy to have picked this up in a sale booth of a book store when I was just there to buy an envelope. It is like its calling to me and now I know why I have to listen to my instinct.
I was going to rate this 4 stars but decided to add another star solely because of the fact that this has been one of the easiest book I read this year.
But don't get me wrong. This book is not easy in the slightest. I meant, I devoured this book just as easily as I do before I contracted the worst bookslump disease. But the story is not easy, the characters where the whole story revolves are complicated and sad and heart warming.
I was rooting for Edith, for Adeleine, angry at Owen, my heart melt for Paulie. This book made me feel a lot just by meeting these fictional chacters.
"I thought I could feel all the space trying to rush in, all those rooms with no living in them yet, begging for light and the tread of people, this infinite home"
I was so sure I still have a couple of pages left. More words to tell me what happened to those characters I was rooting for. So Imagine my surprised when I turn in the next page and saw the big bold words: "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS".
It could have ended differently. There are infinite ways the author could have ended the story, but she chooses it the way she did and somehow, after hours of thinking how the author rob me of possibilities, I understood. I realized, there are infinite possibilities out there and how could you have justified and ending to the characters that are full of flaws from the start? By making them have a happy ending? Sad ending? No it is entirely different and I'm just very happy to have the chance to meet all these characters.
Thank you for giving me a roller coaster ride in this book. Definitely one I will not forget so easily.
Highly recommended.
P.S. watch out for the slow and sometimes too cheesy(writing) moments. But savor it. :)
I was going to rate this 4 stars but decided to add another star solely because of the fact that this has been one of the easiest book I read this year.
But don't get me wrong. This book is not easy in the slightest. I meant, I devoured this book just as easily as I do before I contracted the worst bookslump disease. But the story is not easy, the characters where the whole story revolves are complicated and sad and heart warming.
I was rooting for Edith, for Adeleine, angry at Owen, my heart melt for Paulie. This book made me feel a lot just by meeting these fictional chacters.
"I thought I could feel all the space trying to rush in, all those rooms with no living in them yet, begging for light and the tread of people, this infinite home"
I was so sure I still have a couple of pages left. More words to tell me what happened to those characters I was rooting for. So Imagine my surprised when I turn in the next page and saw the big bold words: "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS".
It could have ended differently. There are infinite ways the author could have ended the story, but she chooses it the way she did and somehow, after hours of thinking how the author rob me of possibilities, I understood. I realized, there are infinite possibilities out there and how could you have justified and ending to the characters that are full of flaws from the start? By making them have a happy ending? Sad ending? No it is entirely different and I'm just very happy to have the chance to meet all these characters.
Thank you for giving me a roller coaster ride in this book. Definitely one I will not forget so easily.
Highly recommended.
P.S. watch out for the slow and sometimes too cheesy(writing) moments. But savor it. :)