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The Woman Upstairs - Community Reviews back

by Claire Messud
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madbkwm
madbkwm rated it 11 years ago
I liked this book. It was compelling and entertaining and thought provoking. It was also very salient to my daily life and so I might have found it better than it otherwise would be. I wavered between a 4 and 5 star rating on this, but ultimately knocked it down to 4 stars because I am not sure ab...
daisyq
daisyq rated it 12 years ago
I loved the anger of the first chapter; the rest of the book never quite lived up to this for me. I didn't find the story of how Nora came to be angry as interesting as the rage itself, and I would possibly have cared more about what she actually did following the events in the novel. The story itse...
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it 12 years ago
This is the story of someone who believes she is not worthy of notice. She believes herself to be part of a class of people who don’t deserve to dream, people who are not memorable, but instead, believe themselves to be unsuccessful, mediocre and invisible in the eyes of the world. This is the story...
lisa's reviews
lisa's reviews rated it 12 years ago
I can't quite believe I made it through this book without throwing it aside in disgust, but I did. The whole book annoyed me; the characters, the story, the narration, etc. I kept waiting for the story to begin, but after a hundred pages I realized that there was no story, just some woman whining ...
A Book and A Review #2
A Book and A Review #2 rated it 12 years ago
I found this book to be OK...not great. The writing was fine; the storyline mediocre. I went into it expecting more creepiness and was sorely disappointed.
River City Reading
River City Reading rated it 12 years ago
Elementary school teacher Nora Eldridge knows how to make other people happy; her students, her dying mother, her ailing father. Yet, she long ago abandoned her dreams of being an artist, the one thing that might have made her happy. When Reza Shahid enters her classroom, Nora's outlook begins to ch...
lisacindrich
lisacindrich rated it 56 years ago
Audio--the reader is doing a good job with it.Wow--this was excruciating, but in a really fine way. Frustration, loneliness and anger so deftly portrayed...
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