Excellent book where the story is told from both points of view. Ruby's story is of her past. Jack's is both present and past. Sometimes you get the story from both points. Other times, it is only one view. I got into the story and could not put it down. I felt the pain of both Ruby and Jack. I crie...
I went 5 minutes beyond my self-imposed minimum 20 minutes (for audiobooks) before DNFing. That was 25 minutes of exposition as the main character explains her family's backstory, and we had only gotten as far as her mother's childhood. Yawn. Audiobook version, borrowed from my local public librar...
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academ...
Daydreaming, loving the wrong man, smoking, all habits hard to break. ~~~ A Virtuous Woman When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anyth...
Gibbons' style reminds me of Cormac McCarthy. For me, that's no compliment. There are no quotation marks around the dialogue, making it harder to keep track of, and almost no commas as far as the eye can see. Gibbons at least could claim a rationale for what in McCarthy I can only see as an affectat...
I thought this was a really honest portrayal of marriage, warts and all. This is a couple that loves each other deeply but fully admits the faults, peeves, and general problems they have to work through each day. The husband's grief over his wife towards the end of the book really got to me. I'd hat...
Ellen Foster is written from the POV of an 11 year old girl who daydreams about killing her alcoholic, abusive father. Left mostly on her own after her mother kills herself, she describes her life with no self pity and copes with managing the household bills and getting food for herself as if it wer...
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