The saying "Gin makes you sin" sure plays a role in Ann Patchett's latest novel Commonwealth.A novel about Family dynamics after marriages end and new relationships form and the fallout that folks have to deal with.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating...
3.5 starsThis story switches around between different time periods within the lives of the members of the two families. It actually took me a little time and effort to get it straight who was related by blood because they are all so connected that it's really like one big family. There are divorce...
Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, author; Hope Davis, narrator Sometimes, a cataclysmic event is preceded by the most unlikely circumstances. The auspicious day that this occurred was the occasion of the christening of Franny Keating. Fix Keating’s house was filled with family, a family populated by polic...
Reading this book is like going on a date with someone who is perfectly appropriate, but not enticing. It has all the elements of a good book: The writing is beautiful, sometimes to the point where it is called magical realism (I'm not so sure about that). The keen observations on human nature are t...
A special thank you to Edelweiss and HarperCollins Canada for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.A chance encounter at a christening party for Franny Keating, ignites a spark between the hostess and an uninvited guest that puts in motion a chain of events that will span five decades and forever...
Read Harder Reading Challenge Item: A Book of EssaysI have never read any of Ann Patchett's novels, nor her memoir, and I don't know whether I ever will. I knew virtually nothing about her, but I read in a review that this book contained essays about writing and marriage, and I was like, "OK, I'm in...
It was nice to read this just a few books after My Brilliant Friend, so I could compare the two. Patchett was so loving and tender in her descriptions of her friend Lucy Grealy, and she made it more than clear why she found Grealy lovable. I believed her, but I also know that a huge personality li...
Dr. Marina Singh is stunned to hear that her lab mate, Anders Eckman has died after travelling to the Amazon on company business. Pushed by her boss and compelled ny Anders wife, Marina undertakes her own trip into the jungle to learn the details of why Anders died and to finish the job he for which...
Maybe 'State of Wonder' is the fact that she kept me predicting the ending that was about to happen and then upset my expectations so I'd think "Wow, how is she gonna pull that off?" all the way through the book, but then every time she pulled it off and I'd just be in a state of wonder.
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