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Glaciares (2000)

by Alexis M. Smith(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: I think "glaciers" must refer to the speed at which the protagonist's thoughts travel. This town is full of bookish, shy, slightly overweight young women who love books and vintage dresses and are in love with unavailable vegetarian bearded bike-riding men who roll up one pant leg to reveal a striped sock. This is your chance to get inside the mind of one of them for a day and Isabel does not do one single interesting or unexpected thing or anything that shows any initiative ever. There are one or two good moments but it's hard to find them because I had the urge to skip over most of it so quickly.
review 2: More a novella since the book is very short. All the events take place in one day, but the book feels more full than that because you get to know Isabel ve... morery well through her thoughts and experiences in spite of the shortness of the book. She seems very real and relatable not because of what she does but more for what she does not do. By the time she finally makes a move towards the guy she has a crush on, he is off to re-enlist in the war. Even at a party she is the observer wishing she could be more like the others. Short but sweet. less

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