by Elizabeth Strout
I initially started this book eighteen months ago, for a book group. I didn't manage to finish it before the discussion and then other books came along and it got forgotten. It was incredibly hard to pick it up again recently, only half read, but the summer is always a time for me to finish incomple...
Abide Wtih Me by Elizabeth StroutTyler Castkee is a minister and has lost his wife. He has a 5 year old girl who he doesn't communicate much with. He has many other community problems besides his own:How can love best be served, a married woman approached him and is beatten by her husband, his mothe...
If you like Marilynne Robinson, you'll like Elizabeth Strout. She's a bit earthier than Robinson. This is a great book with characters I could really relate to. A truthful book. Read it!
Sometimes you come across a line and it shines, like a pearl. But my, the first 2/3 of the book swam in a miasma of stunned grief. It was hard to keep one's head up and progress was painfully slow. I suppose that's fitting for a book that is about the slow healing of a pastor widowed by the death...
This book does a nice job of portraying what life was like back in the late 1950s. That's about the only positive. There's no plot and the dull, unlikeable protagonist without a personality gets walked over like a rug by everyone in town including his kids and mother. If there were pigeons around th...
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