by Anne Tyler
I very rarely ever re-listen to a fiction book. My only exception so far have been this book and another Anne Tyler book, "The Accidental Tourist".Really good fiction makes one see beyond the plot and allows one to feel the meaning of a universal truth. Everyone needs to understand fiction for thems...
I didn't connect well with the main character in this book. It could be that I read in my early twenties and so many things just didn't translate. I would maybe have a different view about it now that I'm older, I've been married for years and now have a child. Not sure. It was just OK for me althou...
I am over 40 and female. I believe this has a lot to do with the reasons why I liked this book so much. A lot of reviewers felt this book somehow missed the mark, not living up to its potential. That to me though, is the essence of the book.There comes a point in our lives when we wonder what wou...
Wonderful book. Rebecca (Beck by family who don't care that she doesn't like that name) marries an older man that already has 3 kids when she's 20. 6 years later he dies in a car accident and she has to raise the 3 girls plus the one they had, take care of his mother and great uncle and take over ...
Just didn't do it for me. I wanted to like Rebecca, I was really pulling for her, but she just never got interesting enough for me. The other characters ranged from interesting but underdeveloped (Zeb, her step-grandson Peter) to annoying (Patch, Barry, NoNo, Rebecca's mother, Aunt Ida, Min Foo, Bid...
Anne Tyler is one of those authors I keep thinking I should like. I've read The Accidental Tourist a couple of times, and still don't like it. I've found Back When We Were Grownups to be much more accessible. Perhaps there's more of a plot; I'm not entirely sure what makes this more enjoyable. T...
A friend recommended this or another book by Anne Typer at some point, but I only recently started this after finding a used copy at the library. Although I did like some parts of it, I wasn't overly impressed by the writing style. I felt like it was good to a point, but that there were certain prob...
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