by Maeve Binchy
I did not think it was possible for me to not love a Maeve Binchy book. I am sorry, but 556 pages was way too long for this extremely slow and boring book. I think she could have cut this down by half and it would have improved things by leaps and bounds. I went back and read Scarlet Feather because...
beautiful story.
I enjoy reading Maeve Binchy, and the more I read the more I like her. She sweeps me into her stories and it's a comfortable and easy place to be. Binchy has a unique way of weaving her characters, and its always a surprise to find a familiar or favorite character in a subsequent novel.
I did enjoy this book. The more I read Binchy's books the more I am liking her style.
i'll start out with something positive - this was just the kind of book that i needed right now. unfortunately, the kind of book i needed was just something that was mindless and had no grand purpose, because i couldn't have possibly focused on anything with real meaning or subtext. this book, alt...
Good Read!
One of my favorites from M. Binchy. I love her characters, her settings. She's a great storyteller. She's got great, strong female protagonists.
A gift. I will try to read it, though there is nothing about it that attracts me or explains why it was given to me. I am not a reader of this sort of book, which I classify as "what the night shift nurses left in the break room on the "trade" shelf in a paper grocery bag with 25 others like it."
This book always makes me sooooo hungry! I want to be able to cook meals like the ones they make :-) I think this is my favourite of Maeve Binchy's books, although this time round I found I could relate to Cathy and Neil's marital problems a bit too much, compared to before I got married.
I do so love Binchy's work. Whether set in Dublin or a small town, whether set in the past or the present, she focuses on a small group of people who know a fair amount about each other, and how those interactions change lives in small and large ways. The fundamental interconnectedness of all thing...
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