It came up in Book Club that it would be nice to have notes about what people enjoyed or didn’t enjoy on our book club reads. So here’s the nutshell information about what we read and how we felt about it.
Book club: Cedar Rapids SciFi/Fantasy Book Club
Venue: Cedar Rapids B & N
Book: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Overall impression: Split. One of the themes of the book is how tied into antisemitism the monster myths of the Western world are, and some found it an uncomfortable read. Some people liked the story.
Warnings: Antisemitism. First-person narration. Multiplicities of first-person narrators. My notes say 6 different first-person narrators.
My personal take: I skipped this month. I have a bias against first-person narration, especially when there are more than three first-person narrators in a book. Who is speaking again?