It took me a long time into reading this to decide that I did, in fact, like it enough to keep going to the end. I appreciated her original sentence structure and style of writing, and once I got started, realized that the point of the story was just to show how the family's life unfolded day to day...
For those of you who enjoyed my recent review of Annie Proulx’s short story collection that includes the story “Brokeback Mountain,” you might also be interested in seeing my older review of her National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning novel “The Shipping News.” In that review here, you can re...
A decent enough read, though I didn't really care for the main character. The story dragged a bit in parts and the writing style took some getting used to as well. I'm not sure if I'd recommend this, to be honest.
I don't even remember finishing this book to tell you the truth. It was so boring. If you're a writer, and you already take a boring plot and tell the story in a boring way, well you know what happens? I'm going to fall asleep. Which is what I did. I think I gave this about five to ten pages at...
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