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Faces in the Crowd
by

Valeria Luiselli,

Christina MacSweeney (Translator)

Mir's review

Apr 09, 2015

really liked it

Ways to begin a book:

I heard a fly buzz when I died.

Of course all life is a process of breaking down.

The novel will be narrated in the first person, by ~~a tree~~ a woman with a brown face and dark shadows under her eyes, who has perhaps died. The first line will be: "I heard a fly buzz when I died."

It all happened in another city and another life.

Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn.

Beware! If you play at ghosts, you become one.

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Reading Progress

April 9, 2015 – Started Reading

April 9, 2015 – Shelved

April 9, 2015 –

page 10

6.85% "I need to generate a structure full of holes so that I can always find a place for myself"

April 10, 2015 –

page 31

21.23% "Wait, she leaves her drinks on bars while she goes out to smoke? I thought this was set in a relatively contemporary time."

April 10, 2015 –

page 58

39.73% "Everything is or should be fiction."

April 10, 2015 –

page 69

47.26% "All novels lack something or someone. In this novel there's no one."

April 10, 2015 –

page 113

77.4% ""behoove" --> behoover (i.e. vacuum)

and really rather interesting poetry"

April 11, 2015 –

page 124

84.93% "There are people who are capable of recounting their lives as a sequence of events that lead to a destiny. If you give them a pen, they write you a horribly boring novel in which each sentence is there for an ultimate reason: everything links up, there are no loose ends."

April 11, 2015 – Finished Reading