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book: The Thin Place | Kathryn Davis

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	• The Thin Place Kathryn Davis Back Bay Books, 2007 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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Third time's a charm

Yesterday, I finished "The Thin Place." The trouble is that I started a year and a half ago. When it first came out, I tried to get through it and couldn't. I lent it to my grandmother, who devours books, only she couldn't get through it either. I tried one more time, then finally gave up and sold the book. So, when I recently stumbled upon "The Thin Place" on a library shelf, it stared out at me, mournfully, saying, "You never got through me!" I don't like to quit things but wasn't sure I could actually finish it. I usually get through books on the first try. I figured, now is as good a time as any.

Having since gone through two years of intense English courses, I finally got through "The Thin Place." I'm really glad I did. I truly enjoyed the story. I felt myself immersed not only in Davises world but in The World as I was reading it. I think the best way to describe this book is that while reading it, I experienced the actual universe. There are passages where you actually feel space: dimensions, stars, math. I lost my breath at some of the descriptions. Kathryn Davis truly creates a novel that transcends reading; The Thin Place is an experience.

That being said, the cover is misleading, the book flap and other descriptions aren't well written, and there are still passages where I am not sure what is going on. I don't know whether I am strong enough to go back in that book and try to figure them out again. It was like gymnastics. It took me 2 hours to read 50 pages. It was challenging to get through but I miss being in the book.

I hope to read some of her other work. I want to say that I will take this book as a leaping off point for others that require a lot of energy to unravel. It might be the start of a new path of literature for me. Maybe this book helps my brain to open like the ant does to the peony.

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Rich, Brilliant, Beautiful, Mysterious

I absolutely adored this book. I was very surprised seeing all the negative reviews here at the Amazon reviews area; I had no trouble at all becoming immediately and totally absorbed in Ms. Davis's ravishingly beautiful prose, from page one to the end. In my enthusiasm I even read chapters of it aloud to some friends (we all particularly loved Margaret's chapters!) Reviewers who did not 'get' the book must be dullards or morons. Ignore them.

The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girls unearthly gift. In Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls come across the body of a dead man on the local lakes beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably, brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the center of this haunting and transcendent novel. THE THIN PLACE is the story of these girls, their town, and the worldly and otherworldly forces that come into play there over one summer. Writing at the peak of her powers, Kathryn Davis draws on commonplace formspolice blotters, garden almanacs, Sunday sermons, horoscopes, and diariesto convey the rich rhythms of life in Varennes. From the ladies in the old-folks home to trappers, lawyers, teachers, ministers, drug addictseven the dogs and cats, beavers and bearsshe peoples this novel with astonishingly vivid beings. The extraordinary comes to visit an ordinary town.

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