I read this before East of Eden but forgot about it. This book was very good and very sad. I’m looking forward to the movie coming out.
I’m glad that the novel took place well after most of the humans were wiped out and it never really explained what happened. I didn’t want it to be a newly post-apocalyptic world.
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I read this book a month or so ago. It was incredible. Very long but didn’t feel like it. Felt like THE book, as if nothing had to be written after it. I’d read it again and recommend it to everyone.
I applied to the MFA program at Ohio State last December, and I just found out that I didn’t get in. Boo!
I probably won’t apply next year. I’m going to wait till we’re ready to move, then apply to a bunch of great programs, then move to where I get accepted.
