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I have a habit of purchasing 4,5 books at a time from an author as I travel on planes a lot and do not like airport bookstores. This is the fourth and I cannot finish it. It has been a downhill journey but I am now facing one more book and wishing I could just toss it.
I kept hoping the teenage girls would have some awesome secret, since the author went on and on and on about it. I can see that is not going to be so.
Also, the book begins with a horrible event and yet the characters do not really seem to portray true traumatization.
Lastly, I am so very tired of seeing lawyers portrayed as creeps.


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Before You Know Kindness Chris Bohjalian 9781400031658 Books Reviews

This story, written from the perspetive of a teenage girl whose father has been the cause of a nuclear melt-down, stayed with me for a long time. Vulnerable, caring, afraid, strong, I don't know how Mr. Bohjalian writes so well from a young woman's perspective, but it's a very good read. I highly recommend all of his work, but this one is definitely a 5 star book.
Though the book is 422 pages it was a quick read. The way the book was constructed pulled me right in and I felt like I knew every character. I love how Bohjalian opens a window into each character's mind and heart while knowing children as well as adults. I thought about the moral questions the book brought up while I wasn't reading it as the author took on vegetarians, vegans, animal rights movement and gun control along with what tragedy can do to a family.

Bohjalian did not clearly make a stand on whether he thought hunting was wrong, or that people should not eat meat, instead letting you think for yourself. Overall, it was great read! I enjoyed the characters and their development. I especially enjoyed the ending which was worth the wait and made the entire book for me personally.
As always Chris bonjalian had me transfixed with one of his novels. I cannot wait to start the next one by this wonderful author. Thank you mr bonjalian for keeping an old lady of eighty still reading and being engrossed with your nivels
Chris, Chris, Chris - was there a sale on parentheses and dashes? I am so discombobulated with all the broken, yet lengthy, sentences, that I can't concentrate on the book. I've read several books by this author, and have absolutely loved all of them. I really don't know what happened with this one. There was one sentence that was SEVEN lines long - half way through it, I had forgotten what it was even about!

Very disappointed in this book. I will finish it only because I truly do want to know what happens. But now I'm skittish when it comes to reading another Chris Bohjalian book. -(
I've read this book twice...the second time recently when I hosted my book club. everyone loved this book..it's a well spun family sorry, but with lots of suspense.....Bohjalian is a masterful story teller. We had just read "The Last Paiting of Sara DeVos" and it was a marvelous book. So I didn't want my choice to be a let down....
It wasn't!!!! the book is wonderful and fulfilling....I highly recommend it!
If you are a Chris Bohjalian fan, you will probably like this book. It is well-researched (at least well-credited for technical details), the characters are exhaustively drawn, and Bohjalian certainly gets some licks in about animal abuse, vegetarianism, etc. These carefully crafted details do make the book interesting and enlightening, and no one could argue about its realistic portrayals of young girls. In fact, this reader finished the story feeling a pretty good story was told, but a little disappointed that the book was maybe, well, a little TOO Bohjalian. Got a little tired of the drawn-out explanation of how everyone felt at every time, and though the ending was hopeful and happier, we could have used a question mark; i.e, leave the reader where Charlotte and her cousin reveal the whole truth, and the parents suddenly discover incredible expectation, even inevitability, of family healing-- but let the reader come up with more of "what happened then?" Perhaps the final tri-athelon scene could have been the prologue, teasing the reader throughout the book about "how????". Just a suggestion...
Well done family story with nicely fleshed characters from Nan, vigorous matriarch and her sprawling third generation summer home where her two grown children and their families gather several times per year. It explores delicate flawed family relationships with love, even for the annoying characters, and political and social issues like hunting and gun ownership unflinchingly and without being preachy. I fast forwarded through some of the visceral descriptions. I think they added to the story, but don’t want to see it.
I have a habit of purchasing 4,5 books at a time from an author as I travel on planes a lot and do not like airport bookstores. This is the fourth and I cannot finish it. It has been a downhill journey but I am now facing one more book and wishing I could just toss it.
I kept hoping the teenage girls would have some awesome secret, since the author went on and on and on about it. I can see that is not going to be so.
Also, the book begins with a horrible event and yet the characters do not really seem to portray true traumatization.
Lastly, I am so very tired of seeing lawyers portrayed as creeps.