Red Notebook Reviews

First and foremost, I need to acknowledge the fact that I’ve been reading this book for quite a long time. And that’s only because I’ve hardly been reading it at all. I’m an artist! A thinker! A liver! (A liver? Ugh! How anatomical!). Yes, a liver! And a lover and creator of many things, and my hobbies were calling me. But alas! I’m back, and with a few things to say.  “Everywhere now human intellect is, ironically, beginning to ignore the fact that a person’s genuine security lies not in his individual, solitary efforts, but in the common solidarity of the people. This terrible individualism absolutely must end, and men will understand at once that they have separated themselves from one another unnaturally,” (358). See Genesis 2:18. This book/section was titled “Lacerations” and the majority of it was spent unraveling the layered relationships the brothers have with each other and with the people in their town. A love story begins to bloom in the most sincere and innocent of ways...