Blog Tour: Sight Reading

Hardcover: 352 pages 

• Publisher: Harper (May 21, 2013)

 The critically acclaimed author of Russian Winter turns her “sure and suspenseful artistry” (Boston Globe) to the lives of three colleagues and lovers in the world of classical music. On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Although their brief meeting may seem insignificant, behind them lie two decades in which their life paths have crisscrossed, diverged, and ultimately interlaced. Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to the composer Nicholas Elko—once the love of Hazel’s life. It has been twenty years since Remy, an ambitious conservatory student; Nicholas, a wunderkind launching an international career; and his wife, the beautiful and fragile Hazel, first came together, tipping their collective world on its axis. As their story unfolds from 1987 to 2007, from Europe to America, from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, each discovers the surprising ways in which the quest to create something real and true—be it a work of art or one’s own life—can lead to the most personal of revelations. Lyrical and evocative, Sight Reading explores the role of art and beauty in everyday life, while unspooling a transporting story of marriage, family, and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.

Daphne Kalotay is the author of the novel Russian Winter, which won the Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Award and has been published in twenty languages, and the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories, which was short-listed for the Story Prize. A MacDowell fellow, Daphne holds a PhD in modern and contemporary literature and an MA in creative writing, both from Boston University, and has received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Yaddo, and the Bogliasco Foundation. She has taught literature and creative writing at Boston University, Skidmore College, Middlebury College, and Grub Street. Co-president of the Boston chapter of the Women’s National Book Association, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Visit her  website and Facebook page.

My Thoughts:
 Okay my review here will probably not do this book much justice! This novel is COMPLEX. It's got threads and threads of emotion and so much ...much. I cannot begin to describe how much this book just was awesome! It sucked me in and took hold of my mind for as long as there were words to read and pages to flip! It's about 352 pages of wonderfully flawed and emotionally powerful characters and story that makes you just delight in reading!

See I have this feeling that there are more in depth and more "wordy" reviews out there, but this
 is what I want you to take from this review...This book was beautifully written and just plain gorgeous. I cannot begin to tell you guys how surprised I was by how much I really enjoyed it! It packs and oomph that you just have to read yourself to experience! I really do recommend it!

Tour Schedule:

Tuesday, May 21st: Conceptual Reception
Wednesday, May 22nd: BookNAround
Monday, May 27th: Must Read Faster
Tuesday, May 28th: Wordsmithonia
Wednesday, May 29th: A Reader of Fictions
Thursday, May 30th: Good Girl Gone Redneck
Monday, June 3rd: Book Club Classics!
Tuesday, June 4th: Between the Covers
Wednesday, June 5th: A Bookish Way of Life
Thursday, June 6th: Tiffany’s Bookshelf
Monday, June 10th: Too Fond
Wednesday, June 12th: My Bookshelf
Thursday, June 13th: Joyfully Retired
Monday, June 17th: I Read a Book Once
Tuesday, June 18th: A Patchwork of Books
Wednesday, June 19th: guiltless reading