A quiet, thoughtful read, as Anne Tyler books so often are. Her characters become real, with a humanity the reader knows. There is nothing ideal about their lives, but in the end, the ordinariness of their day-to-life becomes enough.
Tyler always writes a good story but this one was pretty thin, both figuratively and literally. The narrator publishes short how-to "Beginner's" books and when a co-worker suggests he might find one helpful, he responds "Actually consult one of our books? The Accidental Tourist, I kept feeling like...
I almost decided I didn't want to finish it. I agreed to be part of a bookray for this book. I was a fourth of the way into the story and I wasn't interested at all. I didn't care about the characters, I realized; I'll just close the book and send the book on to the next reader.Only there was no sen...
I have always associated Anne Tyler with my stepmother, which is not to say that I expected her to be bad so much as targeting middle-aged women. I wasn't going out of my way to avoid her so much as just never getting around to her. That was clearly a mistake as this novel completely took the air ou...
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