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Reviews:
1/I haven’t re-read a novel like this in nearly 20 years. Finished it, then promptly returned to the beginning and read it through again. This was the most romantic book I’ve ever read. I’m not a reader of the romance genre (and I would consider this book literary, not romance), but I do appreciate a good love story. I felt like these characters got into my bloodstream and inhabited me. I read constantly and I’m not easily impressed, but I won’t soon forget this one.
2/This book was such an amazingly pleasant surprise. Collins writes about books in a way that I have never experienced. She allows them to be living things; a person’s experiences and memories, instead of just words on a page. An extremely captivating story in a different universe than our own.
Emmett Young is working in the fields when a letter arrives for him with the offer of an apprenticeship he and his family cannot afford to pass up. Bookbinding has always been akin to witchcraft for those who don’t understand it. Despite his desires to stay at home, he is sent to Meredith, an old bookbinder, to learn this craft. She’s slow to teach him the inner workings of binding, but informs him that a bookbinder cannot be made, they are born and it is a sacred calling. As the days go by, Emmett learns to hand-craft stunning leather bound volumes, but does not quite understand what they will hold. Each book holds a memory, something you want to forget or something you need to erase. These volumes hold a secret and binders like Seredith keep them safe. There are others however, that use their gift for profit. Before he’s learned all he needs from her, she passes away and another binder takes him on. As he’s settling in to his new life with this binder, he makes a shocking discover; he has a book with his own name on it. Everything he thought he knew about himself and his life before binding is about to be dramatically rewritten.
3/As a book lover, I love reading books about books (say that five times fast – ha), so this book was an automatic read for me when I found it at my local library. However, this was the first book that I’ve read that explicitly depicts the power of books and stories as a bad thing, and I loved that approach so much. It’s a fascinating (and so meta!) take on the subject. And the 3-part structure of the book with the changing perspective? Genius! I had read The Betrayals already, and The Binding was easily recognizable as Collins’ work with the same mysterious, literary magical realism that seems to be her signature. In short, I loved it, and I’ll read whatever Collins publishes next.
