Books like Painter of Silence

Speed dating with books 4/6Since I am moving my books from one room to another and building a new bookcase I realized (again) that I have way too many unread books. I decided to choose 6 (for the beginning) of the ones waiting on my shelves for a long time or that I do not know if I would like, read 50 pages and decide if I want to continue with them or send them away. This week and the next I will share with you the results.The 4th attempt did not go very well either. I received this novel as a gift for my Birthday a few years ago. I wasn't too keen on the subject but it is set in Romania during and after the WW2 so I thought I should try it. As another plus, it was also shortlisted to Orange prize. The main reason I stopped reading was because I did not enjoy the writing. As other reviews stated, it was something off with it.. Well, after some thought, I realized which one of the problems was. The author doesn't really know her way around commas. Some cases are really blatant. I understand it can be used as a stylistic artifice (such as in The Blindness by Saramago) but I doubt this is the case here. She does use some commas so it's not that. I have to admit and apologize that I also have problems with those tiny creatures but I do not plan to write a novel anytime soon and English is my 2nd language. Also, the construction of some phrases left me baffled.