Swing Time

After avoiding “Swing Time” despite what seems like waves and waves of critical praise, I finally broke down and picked up the book after hearing an interview with Zadie Smith on Fresh Air.

“ST” captures the author's views motherhood, friendship, being biracial, etc., at least according to the interview I heard. Yet, when I read the first 100 pages, I found a rambling mishmash of short chapters that were supposed to be from the viewpoint of girls growing up in the 80s, which sounded like an adult trying to write about childhood. Then, we jump forward to the narrator working for a celebrity and that's also just soooo boring.

Thusly, I put the book down and am quite glad I picked this up from the library and didn't buy it.

After avoiding “Swing Time” despite what seems like waves and waves of critical praise, I finally broke down and picked up the book after hearing an interview with Zadie Smith on Fresh Air.

“ST” captures the author's views motherhood, friendship, being biracial, etc., at least according to the interview I heard. Yet, when I read the first 100 pages, I found a rambling mishmash of short chapters that were supposed to be from the viewpoint of girls growing up in the 80s, which sounded like an adult trying to write about childhood. Then, we jump forward to the narrator working for a celebrity and that's also just soooo boring.

Thusly, I put the book down and am quite glad I picked this up from the library and didn't buy it.