![]() ![]() The first time Archer spots Oliver through binoculars, Oliver is sitting on his balcony trying to see how many blueberries he can fit in his mouth. Gannon clearly loves the world of Rosewood that he created for Archer, Oliver and Adélaïde to live in and spends many paragraphs strolling through minute details of their lives, creating a string of vignettes that never really gel into a coherent plot. All the parts and pieces of a great novel - from the quiet, dreamy suppressed main character to the quirky friends to absent but influential forces in the form of exploring grandparents - are here, but they just never quite added up for me. But, I am an adult and I bring preconceived notions and expectations with me to any book I read. The Doldrums reads like a child-friendly literary version of a Wes Anderson movie in which quirk-ridden characters engage in vaguely poetic and noble, but ultimately eccentric and pointless, pursuits. ![]() I tried my best to like The Doldrums, but ultimately found it to be disjointed, overly whimsical and overly long. ![]()
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