6/28/2023 0 Comments Galore by michael crummey summary![]() So I started to develop this prejudice against Tortoise, which only got worse as the book scooped up more awards. I could not believe that a book about some chick who talks to her turtle could possibly, possibly compete with a novel with the epic sweep and depth of Galore. I started taking notice when it beat out Michael Crummey’s Galore and Lisa Moore’s February for the Winterset award, because those are two pretty big names for a first-time novelist to topple, and Galore was my favourite novel of 2009. ![]() I didn’t know much about Come, Thou Tortoise, except that it was a first novel by a local author whose work I wasn’t familiar with, and that it was getting a lot of acclaim and attention. I’m so glad I got past my expectations and gave this book a shot. Then there’s the case where you build up some kind of prejudice that almost keeps you from picking up a book at all - which nearly happened to me with Come, Thou Tortoise. ![]() In the last post I blogged about a book I was eager yet almost scared to read, lest a favourite author let me down. ![]() It’s a funny thing, the expectations we bring to books. ![]()
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