by Anne Tyler
I wasn't very taken with the novel at first. Maggie and her bickering with her husband, Ira, exasperated me--as it did her husband. But his affection for her was evident by the end of the first chapter, and by then I felt a similar emotion for this middle-aged American Emma. Like Austen's Emma, Magg...
Buddy read with Kim :-).
Reread by audiobook. Kept.Okay, first of all I've always thought of this couple as elderly. I'M OLDER THAN THEY ARE! That's just sick!I went through a time in the 1980s/1990s where I read everything Anne Tyler and kept up with her books. I swear I read this book but there were scenes I didn't re...
I can't believe this won such a prestigious award. The writing was good, but the whole plot was kind of boring. Nothing really happened, except life went on as it always had.
This is a wonderful, quiet but powerful book, with very rich characterization and an interesting structure. It uses a condensed "day-in-the-life" timeline divided into three parts. The first part is the drive to the funeral that Maggie and Ira attend told from Maggie's POV; the second part the dri...
Did they really give her the Pulitzer for this thing?! How utterly appalling! This may qualify as the stupidest book I have ever read. I did not like even one of the characters. Not one! They were annoying and weak and petty. I really wanted to hurl Maggie from the highest bridge just to get her ...
The wonderful thing about Tyler is how accepting she is of her character's foibles. Her books are comforting to read. The drawback is that there isn't a lot of action.
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