Sweet Lamb of Heaven

A confession: this is the first book so far that I've marked as “read” without finishing. It's not like there aren't going to be more books or more things to say, and if I was a better person I would just move on and not worry about getting credit or social media points.

However.

I found this book so tedious that I want credit for every minute I spent with it. I heard on a podcast this week that the apex of the literary experience sitting down silently with an object as the writer's inner sensibility melds with the reader's imagination. This book did not reach those heights. In fact, I thought it was more like a boring person telling a boring story, say, Kristen Stewart describing the traffic she hit on the way to the post office.

I don't want to pile on, negativity is just too easy. But I really didn't like this book, and would not recommend it.