Lost In The Forest
ISBN:
9780747577478 (0747577471)
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
I full-up admit that I wanted to read this book because the summary said the middle child in a grief-stricken family embarks upon a journey to figure out who she is and what she means to the greater world via sexual exploration with a much older man. This Lolita topic is something that always piques...
Audiobook.First of all, I love Blair Brown's narration. You know exactly who is speaking and the emotion that is being conveyed. I plan on making her a narrator that I seek. The story itself, wonderful. Heartbreaking at times and full of all kinds of human foibles. It's mostly about a mother, a...
This was a wonderful book. The story told by one of the characters, the youngest child of a divorced couple living in the Nappa Valley. As we listen in to her conversation with her therapist when she is an adult, she comments on the divorce of her parents, her mother's remarriage and subsequent wido...
Sue Miller is such a master of the domestic that it felt as though I was living someone's life rather than reading about it. She reminds me of Anne Tyler in that her books seem populated by nice middle class people for whom life has somehow turned sour; but this is a darker, more modern and more sex...
I only made it through about half of this book. Not sure why... it's an interesting story, but I think I just realized at one point that I didn't really care how it ended. So I quit.