By Julia Glass ISBN-13: 9780307377937 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication date: 4/1/2014 Pages: 400 My Rating: 3 Stars Since this was my first book by Julia Glass, possibly would have enjoyed it better if I had read her previous books to learn more about the characters backgr...
This is more three related stories--a short novel flanked by two novellas--than an integrated novel. They're united by being set in three June months and one character appears in all three stories--Fenno MacLeod. He's a supporting player in the bookend third-person stories and the first person narra...
I didn't like the triptych format, just out of personal taste. Also, I was expecting more plot. I'm interested in character studies (I absolutely loved The Epicure's Lament, for example, which is similarly plotless), but I think I'm too lowbrow to enjoy simply eavesdropping on the lives of upper-mid...
All of the characters felt authentic and intriguing, growing and learning as the story progressed, even those who only played bit parts to flesh out the story and environment. I could picture the small town New England setting, where houses that have stood for generations get modernist additions as...
I'm not sure how I made it through this one - except as helping me get to sleep! I liked the interweaving of the various New York characters, but unfortunately they were for the most part boring (Saga's was the most interesting story) and the reader's voice interpretations of them were sometimes ir...
I like having long, interesting and pleasant stories for audiobooks - they lull me to sleep. This long rambling family story mostly centered on a middle aged Scottish man named Fenno fit the bill. Unfortunately, the reader's soothing accent did not translate to the dialog of the American character...
I'd give this one more like 3.5 stars, but goodreads doesn't let me do that. I like books that have characters that are real and well developed. Fenno was a very *real* character -flawed and endearing. I also really liked Mal and the bit about his illness and death was very touching. So for char...
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