5/21/2023 0 Comments Flights olga tokarczuk![]() ![]() Its themes are movement and stasis, things changing versus staying the same. I wouldn't describe it as a novel, certainly not a light beach read because the print is fairly small and needs a level of concentration you wouldn't necessarily have after slapping on the Factor 50. A dense, challenging read and I made slow progress, preferring to dip in and out of the book, setting myself daily reading goals to achieve the brief - to read and review. Suffice it to say that I felt like I missed my own connecting flight with this book and I was adrift for some of the time. My friends in Gloucester Book Club have reviewed their experiences with Flights, and I won't try to emulate their eloquent descriptions and assessments. We were given the book Flights, (410 pages) with a fairly tight deadline to read and review. This exercise in itself has been a fulfilling experience and I am very pleased to have taken part in it. ![]() I read this as part of Gloucester Book Club's shadowing of the Man Booker International Prize 2018. ![]()
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