the secret chord geraldine brooks review

I found nothing redeeming in the character of David. Here was where I found my biggest problem. It is told from the point of view of Natan (Nathan,) the Prophet. The story was one familiar to me from Biblical accounts of David, the shepherd boy who ultimately was chosen by God and went on to be king over Israel. The writing was also crude in parts and the battle and rape scenes are very graphic. Later, a few lines about David’s singing voice were striking. The opening about almond blossoms had me expecting I would love this book. The writing is beautiful in some places as you would expect from Geraldine Brooks. Maybe part of the problem was that I had such high expectations, but in the end I was disappointed in this book. I couldn’t wait to dive into it and started immediately it arrived. Having enjoyed all the novels by Geraldine Brooks I have read, and adored some of them, I was desperate to read this one and so excited to receive a copy from The Reading Room and Hachette Australia to read and review. They divide their time between homes in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Sydney, Australia. They have two sons– Nathaniel and Bizuayehu–and two dogs.

She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.īrooks married author Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-Loup, France, in 1984. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is an international bestseller, and People of the Book is a New York Times bestseller translated into 20 languages. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.

In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īustralian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney.

The secret chord geraldine brooks review