maybe next time
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouDreamers of the Day, by Mary Doria Russell
The problem with Russell having written The Sparrow, which was violent and transformative and heartbreaking and which I loved, is that I keep wanting her to write something that overpowering again. And, well, this isn't it either. Solidly entertaining novel (mostly) about a woman going to Egypt on the periphery of the Cairo Conference. Endearing characters, moral complexity, juicy factoids. But I was never once surprised.
(253/250)
The problem with Russell having written The Sparrow, which was violent and transformative and heartbreaking and which I loved, is that I keep wanting her to write something that overpowering again. And, well, this isn't it either. Solidly entertaining novel (mostly) about a woman going to Egypt on the periphery of the Cairo Conference. Endearing characters, moral complexity, juicy factoids. But I was never once surprised.
(253/250)
