By Robin Black ISBN: 9781400068562Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication Date: July 15, 2014 Format: Hardcover Pages: 256My Rating: 4 Stars A special thank you to Random House Publishing Group and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Robin Black’s LIFE DRAWING is ...
"In the days leading up to my husband Owen's death, he visited Alison's house every afternoon." Augusta and Owen have moved to the country to leave their past troubles behind and persue their art. Alison moves in over the hill and befriends the comfortable couple. Nora, Alison's daughter moves i...
It is so easy to dislike all of the characters involved in Life Drawing. They are all flawed, self-involved, and focused on the wrong things. Gus and Owen have some very nontraditional ideas about relationships that may or may not be the root of their problems depending on how one interprets their a...
If this novel were to take out an ad in the personals, that ad might read "absolutely must love domestic fiction". If, like me, you tend to equate domestic fiction with chick lit, please don't make that mistake here. Life Drawing is serious literary fiction, plumbing the depths of a long-term relati...
This book was a little uneven for me. I liked some of the stories, but others just irritated me. The ones that bugged me involved characters that did things like expecting the people in their lives to be mind-readers. If you want something or if you have a problem, you have to talk to people, you ca...
Want a piece of this sociopathic passive anger? Then arm yourself with a blunt Stanley knife and put on a REM dirge
Life Drawing by Robin Black is one of those books that I could easily have passed by if not for a couple of Goodreads friend's reviews. Slow to begin with and yet interesting enough to get my attention, this is one of those books that requires patience as its not full of drama or twists and turns ...
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