Though I’ve just now realized that he may spirit you away! Book Reviewed by: BookBrowse Review Team Buy This Book. Well, what initially drew me to this novel were the realistic characters that Julia Glass brings to life within the first few chapters. I found the multiple narratives distracting and not particularly well done (I felt like the characters got unequal amounts of narration, but this might just be my perception because some were much more interesting to me than others) or illuminating. He struggles in his search to find love. He struggles in his search to find love. If that came to pass, Greenie would surrender to the vagaries of fleeting fame, but right now the business ran as smoothly as she could have hoped. Must Reads! Book #45 of my 2006 Book List, finished reading it on 9-26-06. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Alan’s only complaint was that waking up so often and so urgently made it hard for him to remember his dreams. When I plucked this from the sidewalk clearance area of my favorite U.S. bookstore, all I knew about it was that it featured a chef and was set in New York City and New Mexico. She had known this before they married, but she had assumed this aspect of his psyche would burn off, under the solar exposure of day-to-day affection, like cognac set aflame in a skillet. And then it was Tuesday. Greenie told herself while inspecting her private battalion. Analyzing the contours of gender within black internationalism, scholars examine the range and … Less is more. It's happening a lot lately, and I find it offensive. Greenie would smile and wave before the dog was yanked along on its way. She would have attacked the problem head on if the sufferer had been one of her girlfriends, but Alan was a man, chronically resentful of direction. But the more I read, and as more and more peripheral characters got their own main story arcs or glommed onto those of the Duquette-Glaziers, the more I came to not like this book. To me, the best characters in this whole book was Saga, a 30-something woman who lost her memory in an accident – she is also a rescuer of animals; and Saga's Uncle Marsden, a Yale ecologist who takes care of her. To see what your friends thought of this book, This is the first book I've read by this author, and it will be the last. Once again Julia Glass won me over with her characters. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Taking place a year and half before 9/11, Glass weaves together a tale about Greenie and Alan, a couple with one son, whose marriage is on the rocks; Walter, a sassy gay restaurateur and Greenie's best friend; and Saga, a drifting woman who loves animals and has suffered from a terrible accident. So that very night, after tucking George in bed, Greenie had returned to the kitchen where she made her living, in a basement two blocks from her home, and stayed up till morning to birth a four-layer cake so dense and muscular that even Walter, who could have benched a Shetland pony, dared not lift it with a single hand. 75% of the book tells a story that is, on its own, absorbing: a long-married couple at an impasse over infidelity and different career arcs, a gay restauranteur in his 40s trying to find love and mentor his punk nephew, a young girl with a brain injury caring for animals and dealing with her family. Wah, wahhhhhh Wah. Another book about people with too much money having poor personal lives. I found the dialogue throughout pretty stilted and inconsistent--Glass's strength is definitely much more in reflective interiority, as opposed to dialogue. Links to each city with extensive info on time, weather forecast, Daylight Saving Time changes, sunrise, sunset and moon times and phases. Glass does a lovely job with placing the reader in both New York and New Mexico but the thing I like best is that every character, even the peripheral ones, are interesting, three-dimensional people. This is not normal behavior for me. The amount of work they all shared felt just right to Greenie; she could not have taken an order for one more tiny éclair without enlarging the enterprise to a degree where she feared she would begin to lose control. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and other issues with a collection of cutting-edge essays on black women's internationalism in this pivotal era and beyond. So I bought another copy and read it again. This is the worst author I've come across in a while! He’d never been too explicit about such longings, but he made allusions.) However, I think that the book is too long and has too many strands to it. Glass' entire book is about the normal relationships we draw our self into every day, and how our own emotional relationships seem trivial when we witness tragedy. When they had been sleeping together—or not-sleeping together—nearly every night for a month, she asked, “Why do you suppose we’re like this? . Please try again. The story was okay, but it just lacked the connection and magic of Three Junes. Greenie (Charlotte Greenway Duquette) is a pastry chef married to Alan, a failing psychotherapist, for 10 years. As in her other books, Julia Glass focuses on several characters whose lives intersect and writes each chapter from the point of view of a different character. ….uh huh…right.). I give it an A, even though I had some mixed feelings about the ending, b/c the writing and characters are just that good. “Dreaming is the healthy alternative. It is a long book (500 pages) and I often found myself drawn to the supporting characters more than Greenie and Alan, but Glass’ prose is like walking into a lake and feeling the water on your feet on an early summer morning. Something went wrong. The story was okay, but it just lacked the connection and magic of Three Junes. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Those facts were enough to get me interested, and my first taste of Julia Glass’s fiction did not disappoint. It is a bit annoying at points to switch between characters, a device I have never loved, but it kept me reading (and guessing!). His Conversations on The World Over have included Presidents Bush and Trump, Pope Benedict XVI, Mother Theresa, Mel Gibson, famed tenor Placido Domingo and comic legend, Jerry Lewis. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, No Import Fees Deposit & $10.02 Shipping to Netherlands. It was the sort of dessert that appalled Greenie on principle, but it also embodied a kind of uberprosperity, a transgressive joy, flaunting the potential heft of butter, that Protean substance as wondrous and essential to a pastry chef as fire had been to early man. Not a good thing.” “Why? Please try your request again later. A novel by the author of "Three Junes," and for which I traded a Vanity Fair and "The Stone Diaries" so I'd have it for plane reading back from the Congo. Walter had also commissioned a deep-dish apple pie, a strawberry marble cheesecake, and a layer cake he asked her to create exclusively for him. Bya!” Pure Walter: irritating, affectionate, magnanimous, coy. Julia Glass is at her best here, weaving a glorious tapestry of lives and lifetimes, of places and people, revealing the subtle mechanisms behind our most important, and often most fragile, connections to others. (A bakery in the Village? This is the first book I've read by this author and I'm not sure if I'll try another. And mad props to Glass, b/c it did not disappoint--even though it's mainly the story of a bunch of New Yorkers just before 9/11. At the end you will thank her for introducing the characters to you, and even reminding you that nothing is as important as family, friends, strangers the whole world over. I may read it a third time. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Glass follows several characters through a time period when they have to make decisions that will change the course of life and love - and none of the characters is perfect. The plot follows separate characters whose lives converge on a few blocks of central Manhattan, and the climax occurs on 9-11, while tragedy unfolds nearby. Has love or the lack of? First Published: May 2006, 528 pages Paperback: Jun 2007, 576 pages. I like the "real world" feel of this book. JULIA GLASS is the author of the best-selling Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction; her previous novels include, most recently, And the Dark Sacred Night and The Widower's Tale. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. She was so-o-o-o-o-o slo-o-o-o-o-o-o-w. I hope so-and-so wasn't caught in the WTC!" However, on a re-read, I am feeling slightly bored. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A beautiful Tuesday under sunny blue skies. (As in Robert the Bruce? At Walter’s restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie’s coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. Glass offers unobtrusive yet resounding insights into the paradoxes of families, the necessary solace of friendship and the volatility of intimate relationships gay and straight. what an annoying pile of drivel. How to use the (whole) world over in a sentence. I felt, however, that the author included way too many characters and therefor didn't do them enough justice throughout the book. A novel by the author of "Three Junes," and for which I traded a Vanity Fair and "The Stone Diaries" so I'd have it for plane reading back from the Congo. Taking place a year and half before 9/11, Glass weaves together a tale about Greenie and Alan, a couple with one son, whose marriage is on the rocks; Walter, a sassy gay restaurateur and Greenie's best friend; and Saga, a drifting woman who loves animals and has suffered from a terrible accident. I'm really glad I didn't read the jacket of this book before reading the book itself, because I wouldn't have enjoyed it half as much if I'd known going in that the narrative would culminate on September 11, 2001. Especially memorable is how the lives of these people (and others) weave together and how they cope with the 9/11 terrorist attack. . Greenie had wondered but never asked; more likely the dog was named after some fetching young porn star, object of Walter’s cheerfully futile longing. "Three June" and "TheWorld Over". When Walter recommends Greenie to the governor of New Mexico, she seizes the chance to become the his pastry chef and to take a break from her marriage, a psychiatrist with a whole other set of problems. Praise for The Whole World Over “In her second rich, subtle novel, Glass reveals how the past impinges on the present, and how small incidents of fate and chance determine the future . I especially liked how Glass was able to write about all different kinds of people with sympathy and an even hand: a southwestern Republican governor/rancher, a gay New York restaurant owner, environmental activists, ranch cooks and cowboys, New York liberals, a brain-injured animal rescuer, a doddering old professor, a Wall Street stock trader, spinster sisters, people in happy committed relationships, people in unh. It is the sublime result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compatibilities and tastes; on a respect for measurement, balance, chemistry and heat; on a history of countless errors overcome.”, “It was Friday, so the farmers' market was in full autumnal swing, a sea of potted chrysanthemums and bushel after bushel of apples, pears, Fauvist gourds, and pumpkins with erotically fanciful stems. His schedule had dwindled to half time, and the extra hours it gave him with George did not seem to console him. After it was on his menu for a week, Walter bet her a lobster dinner that before a year was out, Gourmet would request the recipe, putting both of them on a wider culinary map. A story that begins in Greenwich Village. I started reading it in the States at the very end of December and finished it in the middle of this month, gobbling up the last 250 pages or so all in one weekend. Two reasons - the characters change their minds for nonsensical reasons, leaving them all feeling fake instead of genuine. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. This was the most wonderful book. Critic Reviews "Glass brings the same assured narrative drive and engaging prose to this exploration of the quest for love and its tests: absence, doubt, infidelity, guilt, and loss." 9/11 has been so politicized in the years since it happened that it's easy to forget how that day felt. It's the same the whole world over, It's the poor what gets the blame, It's the rich what gets the pleasure, Isn't it a blooming shame? Underneath the stars above. Upping the ante didn't work for her writing style, I'm sad to say. The narrator was not great at all. Current local time in an extensive selection of cities and countries worldwide, in all time zones with DST accounted for. As if to confirm her fleeting disenchantment with all that stood for romantic love, she and Alan had had another of the fruitless, bitter face-offs Greenie could never seem to avoid—and which, in their small apartment, she feared would awaken and worry George. Why can’t we just go to sleep, like the rest of the exhausted people around us?” They were lying in Alan’s bed, in the never-quite-dark of a city night. Like Greenie, he would be alert for another half hour or more. I have to admit I'm disappointed. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. “Vee Aye Pee,” he intoned breathlessly, as if she were about to get a call from the Pope. Greenie Duquette has a small bakery in the West Village that supplies pastries to restaurants, including that of her gay friend Walter. . 'The Whole World Over' By Julia Glass. Greenie was just shaking off the ill effects of what she called VD whiplash: VD as in Valentine’s Day, an occasion that filled her with necessary inspiration as January waned, yet left her in its wake—if business was good—vowing she would never, ever again bake anything shaped like a heart or a cherub or put so much as a drop of carmine dye in a bowl of buttercream icing. “It’s called delegation.” This was the sort of bickering that passed too often now between them, and if Greenie blamed Alan for starting these quarrels, she blamed herself for plunging into the fray. ― Julia Glass, The Whole World Over. As a poster in Fenno's shop declares about birds, they "fly the whole world over" but always find their way back home." I loved the descriptions of food in this book as the main character is a successful pastry chef in New York. The Whole World Over by Konstantin Simonov. But the more I read, and as more and more peripheral characters got their own main story arcs or glommed onto those of the Duquette-Glaziers, th. “Everybody expects one of those, you know, death-by-chocolate things on a menu like mine, but what I want is massacre by chocolate, execution by chocolate—firing squad by chocolate!” he told her. Please read the Three Junes before this book. Her shadow, when she looked backwards, was long and elegant..." I have seen my own shadow like that and "elegant" is exactly the right word, but I never would have thought of it. Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2018. Took me a few minutes to get into it but I ultimately enjoyed her observations, the exploration of relationships, and her wonderfully brief descriptions: "The sun faced precisely down the center of the street. Although some story lines are unexpectedly rich -- the character of Saga annoyed me at first but her story became quite compelling -- in the end there is an overabundance of people one is expected to know and care about. She would know that spring had arrived when green crept into her rabbit’s-eye view, as the small plots of earth around the trees in front of the building filled with hardy weeds or the floral attempts of residents longing in vain for gardens of their own. Idiot me, what was I thinking! 0 likes. I'm really glad I didn't read the jacket of this book before reading the book itself, because I wouldn't have enjoyed it half as much if I'd known going in that the narrative would culminate on September 11, 2001. Saga is a sweet and naive character that needs to find her strength. I don't really like Julia Glass, and I chose it only because I had a car trip coming up and I was sure that a Glass novel would be the right speed for listening while driving. As a former New Yorker now living in New Mexico, I could not resist this novel about a Greenwich Village chef (who lived around the corner from where I lived) who relocates to Santa Fe. It is a bit annoying at points to switch between characters, a device I have never loved, but it kept me reading (and guessing!). THE WHOLE WORLD OVER. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Consistent with all the evolutions and revolutions of married life, their wakeful late-night musings came to an end when they had George. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts–heading west without her husband. by Pantheon. Glass has returned to both the triptych form and the West Village in her second novel, "The Whole World Over." Standing on the bridge at midnight She says, 'Farewell, blighted love!' “What about me?” she said. While Democrats and Republicans squabble in Washington, injustice and … Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. I haven't loved 2 books more in a vary long time. It took me a long time to finish this book (2 times out of library). This is the cheapest type of writing--pulling out a recent and very genuine disaster to try to make your reader give a damn about watery, two-dimensional, uninteresting characters. “Do I think too much?” “Not you.” He pulled her closer against his side. Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2014. Her shadow, when she looked backwards, was long and elegant..." I have seen my own shadow like that and "elegant" is exactly the right word, but I never would have thought of it. Upping the. In Amsterdam, a lonely young sailor just arrived in the city aboard a ship meets a shy teenager named Annika. Taking their four-year-old son, George, with her, Greenie leaves for New Mexico, while figures from her and Alan's pasts challenge their already strained marriage. Gems - Just Gems. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. “With you, I can only imagine that some part of your waking soul just can’t bear to see another magnificent day in the life of Greenie Duquette come to an end.” “That’s very poetic,” said Greenie, “but it’s malarkey.” “When I’m with you,” he said, “I love not getting to sleep.” He kissed her and kissed her, and then they did fall asleep. Three Junes left many readers asking for more (a lot more in some cases) and Julia Glass was apparently more than aware of the fact. An internationally known, award-winning journalist, producer and best-selling author, Arroyo is known for his penetrating interviews of leading news figures. It was good to see Fenno again, but he seemed quite different from Three Junes. When he was with friends, his argumentative nature was his strength, a way of challenging the world and its complacencies, but in private—alone with Greenie—he fell prey to defensiveness and nocturnal nihilism. The characters in this book could have made up several more interesting novels rather than being all crammed into one. The storyline is all over the place, the characters and their dialogue is ANNOYING (brought me back to when I used to see episodes of Dawson's Creek and thought, who the hell talks like that!) . As with "Three Junes," Julia Glass has created a story of interlocking characters all pursuing happiness as best they can. By itself, this creation doubled the amount of cocoa she ordered from her supplier every month. About this Book. by Julia Glass ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, 2006. Just below the windows, Greenie had hung her copper and stainless-steel bowls, in pairs. Glass says she stopped writing her book when the Sept. 11 … I found the multiple narratives distracting and not particularly well done (I felt like the characters got unequal amounts of narration, but this might just be my perception because some were much more interesting to me than others) or illuminating. The plot follows separate characters whose lives converge on a few blocks of central Manhattan, and the climax occurs on 9-11, while tragedy unfolds nearby. I was also fascinated by my own yearnings for Greenie; I wasn't quite sure where I wanted her to end up or with whom and the answer wasn't a foregone conclusion. As Greenie checked her e-mail at work that morning, a small pink box popped up on the screen: Carpe diem, ladies! Glass's long but always captivating tale is a quilt of many colors and motivations whose strongest threads are love of family and sense of self. The plot follows separate characters whose lives converge on a few blocks of central Manhattan, and the climax occurs on 9-11, while tragedy unfolds nearby. The only windows ran along the ceiling at sidewalk level: wide yet narrow, like gunports in a bunker. [Glass] is deft at the quick portraiture and character shorthand that this novelistic approach requires.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review, “Glass pins down these lives with verve, precision, and depth.... A wise book, with breadth as well as depth.” —The Oregonian. Or maybe this: the Director of Cheesecake from Junior’s had tasted hers—a thousandfold superior to theirs—and wanted to give her a better-paid but deadly monotonous job in some big seedy kitchen down in Brooklyn. “Delegation,” said Alan. I liked it more when there wasn't anything specifically life-altering, just people living normal lives. Now Greenie wondered if Alan had needed it more than she understood. About The Whole World Over. by Julia Glass. Her second novel picks up some of the story lines from the first one but does so quite half-heartedly. What luck to read two wonderful novels in a row. I also didn't like the tragedy (don't want to give it away by saying what) that she includes at the end of the book. I am on page 393 of this 507-page book and the only reason I'm finishing it is because I kept reading, thinking maybe the story would go somewhere...where it should go?? So please all you readers out there: stay away from this book..507 pages of my life that I can't get back! Glass also shows you that each connection can create purpose, strengthen identity, and lead you to a new relationships. Of all the fine novels I have read that use this device,"The Whole World Over" was the first, and I doubt Glass ever gets credit for that. I read Julia Glass. Sometimes dog faces were the only ones she saw for hours. ©2006 Julia Glass (P)2006 Books on Tape. In the trash, fireplace or any similar place!! Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. The storyline is all over the place, the characters and their dialogue is ANNOYING (brought me back to when I used to see episodes of Dawson's Creek and thought, who the hell talks like that!) Directed by Léonard Forest, Don Haldane. . The characters in this novel will stick in your imagination. Gonna search the whole world over. It's rather pleasant, wouldn't you say? See also: over, world. When the loaves and cakes she had baked sat cooling on racks, Greenie filled the larger sink with all the loaf pans and whisks, cups and spoons and mixing bowls. Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2008. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and her four–year–old son, George. what a disappointing read by the author of Three Junes, a book I very much loved! She had made this place—an old boiler room in the basement of a nondescript tenement building—into her private kingdom. Greenie Duquette has a small bakery in the West Village that supplies pastries to restaurants, including that of her gay friend Walter. Greenie (Charlotte Greenway Duquette) is a pastry chef married to Alan, a failing psychotherapist, for 10 years. The intention behind this seemed to be to represent the intersect. everywhere in the world: People are the same the whole world over. I read/listened to this. I could give this book a three or a four star rating depending on the time of day or the month, or the year. The cultures of Manhattan and New Mexico, straight and gay relationships, parents and children, are sensitively explored in Glass’s replete successor to her NBA-winning debut novel, Three Junes (2002). So is the story of Saga, who is trying to live a normal life after a tree limb falls on her head. "To Turn the Whole World Over is a brilliant, timely, must read book for the study of black women's internationalism and the unfinished struggle for global black freedom." Who are you? It takes place in New York and New Mexico. Great books I can read 20 times and still be held mesmerized. Likewise the gay restauranteur and his friends. She does this throughout the book, and I wished I'd marked more of them - puts two simple words together which. I hope so-and-so wasn't caught in the WTC!" Count me in! This book summed it up better than anything I've read: we were all absorbed with our own lives, and everything we were going through felt very, very important. Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2016. In The Whole World Over she has given us another tale that pays tribute to the extraordinary complexities of love. I remember loving Glass' previous book, Three Junes, so was excited to finally get her newest novel from the library. Fenno McLeod, the center of the triptych of "Three Junes," appears throughout this new work as a supporting yet important character. As usual, Glass gives you several lovable, complicated characters that readers will wince to see making selfish, cowardly, and lazy personal choices--just like the real friends you love. She hadn’t bothered to go to bed, since Tuesday was one of the days on which she rose before dawn to bake brioche, scones, cinnamon rolls, and—Tuesdays only—a coffee cake rich with cardamom, orange zest, and grated gingerroot: a cunningly savory sweet that left her work kitchen smelling like a fine Indian restaurant, a brief invigorating change from the happily married scents of butter, vanilla, and sugar (the fragrance, to Greenie, of ordinary life). None of the characters really know how they are supposed to act when situations come up that throw their lives into disarray. Refresh and try again. The Whole World Over: A Novel - Kindle edition by Glass, Julia. Taking their four-year-old son, George, with her. Soon they dragged her from the river, Water from her clothes they wrang. "The Whole World Over" is a great 300 page book spread over 500 pages. gah! Greenie did not know what to do about this. But Alan still slept so lightly that he was nearly always the first to rise and comfort George when he cried. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. The language is not strong enough to merit a second reading. It revolves mainly around four characters--Greenie, who is suddenly being wooed by the governor of New Mexico, who needs a personal chef; her husband, Alan, a failing shrink; her friend Walter, a flamboyant restaurateur who takes in his teenage nephew; I remember loving Glass' previous book, Three Junes, so was excited to finally get her newest novel from the library. 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