Reader’s Note
8 out of 10
Short chapters, which suited me — twenty minutes at a time over about a month. The model of the city, and that house in Saint Malo, are what I kept. The shortness is also why it never quite got its hooks all the way in.
by@pageandvineWritten 7 July 2026Read 3 July 2026
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All the Light We Cannot SeeAnthony DoerrIn the Margins
All the Light We Cannot See reviewed by @quietcarriage
Beautiful sentence after beautiful sentence after beautiful sentence, and the tiny chapters are ideal for a journey with a lot of stops, but by the end I was full up. Marie-Laure's model of the city, though. That I'll keep.7 out of 10@quietcarriage
All the Light We Cannot See reviewed by @bookclubdropout
Everyone cried except the tall one, who said the short chapters felt like a phone buzzing, and honestly he isn't wrong, and I cried anyway.8 out of 10@bookclubdropout
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