Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

This is one of my favorite books. Very grounding and touching. I read it whenever I'm having a rough time in life, and it puts everything in perspective for me.

The major plots of this novel are great. I liked Oskar's adventures around New York, I liked the interesting relationship between his grandparents. But oh I didn't like the writing technique at all. It quickly became annoying with the stream of consciousness-style writing and the gimmicky pictures. But the plots saved it, and I wanted to read to the end to see how things would wrap up.

Teary and beautiful and bizarre and sweet.