Oracle Night

Oracle Night is a relatively easy-going novel. You don't really feel heightened moments of sadness or stress until the very end. I like these kinds of books because they keep my emotions at bay and give me time to think about the novel as a whole while reading it. I think, however that my biggest attraction to the novel was the mystery that paul austen built around the central plot. Everything from the blue notebook to Grace's dreams seem to leave a trace of mystery and ambiguity in the reader's mind. I think that Paul Auster did a good job at creating this air of uncertainty in this novel without cliche. It is unlike most novels in that sense because we never really loose touch of the reality of the story. Paul Auster remains true to realistic fiction and still manages to deliver a novel stimulating to the reader's imagination.