![]() ![]() Roberta also mentioned the “clever” ways that Foer plays with the text and design throughout the book. Both Oskar and the reader have been played. As Roberta revealed in her Writer’s Review, it turns out that Oskar’s mom does know what he is doing and has surreptitiously arranged it so that Oskar is safe the whole time. But, for the sake of the story, I was willing to suspend that disbelief and keep reading. I enjoyed his story line, his search for his lost father in New York City, even though I didn’t find it very believable that Oskar’s mother would allow him to roam NYC on his own. ![]() Not wanting to confuse myself by reading two books by the same author at the same time, I set aside Here I Am to read later and began reading our book selection. This past December I noticed the book on the “new releases” shelf at my local library, so I brought it home, only to discover that it was written by the same author as our next book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. ![]() ![]() The interview was interesting enough that I added Here I Am to my “must read” list. In 2016 I heard a radio interview of Jonathan Safran Foer, who was promoting his newly released book, Here I Am. Let’s look at Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer from a reader’s perspective.įor a summary of Extremely Loud, please check out its introductory post.Įxtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer ![]()
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