José Martínez itibaren San Antonio, FL, USA

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05/03/2024

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2019-03-12 17:40

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** spoiler alert ** (I recently re-read this book for my book club.) My first reading of the book almost 10 years ago was a complete delight…and a crushing experience. Ha! No, seriously, the book is *sad* and I remember feeling nearly bereft at the fate of the characters and at not being able to have them in my life for longer despite the great length of the book. This time around, because I anticipated so much misfortune but couldn’t remember the specific details (with the exception of a few key moments in the book), I was almost relieved that all the potentially horrible moments in the book didn’t necessarily turn out as I feared they would as I read. That is, the characters careened toward the brink over and over but fate managed to put the brakes on, averting disaster at the last moment. For that reason, I think I was able to appreciate the small joys and happy moments even more than the first time around. Overall, the book portrayed despair and disappointment, but there were precious moments of hope and gladness as well, and I especially enjoyed that the characters were able to appreciate those moments, too. This time, as with the first, I fell in love with the characters’ humor and quirks; despite the profound sadness of so much of it, I laughed aloud repeatedly. At the end, the ones who were worst off were still able to hang onto that joy unlike one in particular who despite his relative comfort couldn’t deal with life and gave up. I thought these two passages were key: “Then what did you do?” “What can anyone do in such circumstances? Accept it, and go on. Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote: “All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay.’” “Yeats?” guessed Maneck The proofreader nodded, “You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.” He paused, considering what he had just said. “Yes,” he repeated. “In the end, it’s all a question of balance.” (A Fine Balance, pp. 228-29) ----------- He rearranged his hand, discarded a card face-down and announced, “Rummy!” After presenting his completed sequences, he analysed the errors others had made. “You should never have thrown away the knave of hearts,” he told Dina. “That’s why you lost.” “I took a chance.” He gathered up the cards and started shuffling. “Okay, whose deal is it?” “Mine,” said Dina, and accepted the deck. (A Fine Balance, p. 565)

2019-03-12 21:40

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This is the first Charles de Lint that I've read. I really didn't know where to start with him because I know he has a long-running series, and even though I think the books can be read out of order I don't like to do that. The Mystery of Grace is a stand alone book and I absolutely loved the book. Grace is a mechanic with a love of classic Ford car and rockabilly music. The book opens a couple of weeks after her grandfather has passed away and Grace has not been taking it well. She's been shutting herself up in her apartment and not seeing her friends. It's on one of these evenings when she is by herself that she decides to go to a small local grocery store to pick up some cigarettes. What ends up walking into the store is an attempted robbery with Grace as the casualty. She wakes up three days later in her bed in her apartment thinking she's had a terrible dream, but in fact Grace had died. Here starts a beautiful story about what may await us on the other side and learning how to have faith in what you don't understand. I liked that de Lint gave us his story yet didn't preach about anything. He still left enough of the possiblity of the beyond to our own thoughts and imaginations. I also liked the sense of hope that I felt reading this book. I won't lie it was sad. Reading about Grace losing her life before it should have been time, then Grace finding someone who she really cared for only too late, was heartbreaking. But, and I don't want to give anything away, after certain events cause Grace to really look at the (after)life she's living and dedcide that she does have faith in what is to come, I felt that she was right in her trust in that which she didn't know or understand. I wish the story could have continued on, but I understand why it ended the way it did, because we really don't know. It's something for each of us to find / figure out on our own. I liked that the story was written this way, but like I said it left be with this great sense of hope on Grace's part. This is a book that I can see myself going back to read in the future.

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