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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
My only quibble is that it was a novella not a novel. I love Tyler’s characters. They are eccentric. I easily identify with them.
A lovely Anne Tyler book, but felt the end lacked the usual everything and nothing revelations. Fixing computers, damaging his relationship and not being the father of his Uni girlfriends son. I’d have enjoyed more on the sisters.
This is a quiet book (low stakes) with exquisite writing.
No doubt , Anne Tyler writes accessible novels. Her specialty is capturing the personalities of quirky, somewhat dysfunctional individuals. She paints a picture of the protagonist which elicits compassion. The reader is uncertain whether the main character needs professional help or is simply unusual.
Ms. Tyler is accomplished, popular, and prolific.But she continues to write the same book with different characters and conflicts.
I found a description of Morgan’s Passing from 2000 in one of my book diaries. My summary and comments 20 years ago were identical to how I would describe the current novel!
Ms. Tyler is accomplished, popular, and prolific.But she continues to write the same book with different characters and conflicts.
I found a description of Morgan’s Passing from 2000 in one of my book diaries. My summary and comments 20 years ago were identical to how I would describe the current novel!
My husband is a bit like a more sensitive, self-aware version of Micah Mortimer, the structured, fastidious protagonist in Anne Tyler's THE REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, so maybe this is why I found him to be so endearing. Micah is a man so disciplined that he struggles to see the world through any lens other than his own disappointment in its failure to be perfect; he judges others' poor driving, his family's crazy clutter, his girlfriend's choice to leave undone dishes on the counter. We get to be with him as he starts to realize, at age 43, that he is misunderstanding social cues, missing out on his life, and that he might benefit from a little human connection. This is a charming little novel, and funny/sad, but in the end, hopeful. Four stars.
Anne Tyler's extraordinary gift is to write about ordinary lives, and I was grateful for this reading experience during this strange time of a global pandemic. I found reading about Micah's orderly schedule, when all of our "normal" has been completely upside-downed, to be soothing. This book found me at a good time.
Format: NYPL hardcover, borrowed
Read for:
2020 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge Prompt 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge (2019, a book about a hobby - I am a runner, and I chose this one because I read in the blurb that Micah is a runner. This book isn't really about running, but it still works for me.)
Anne Tyler's extraordinary gift is to write about ordinary lives, and I was grateful for this reading experience during this strange time of a global pandemic. I found reading about Micah's orderly schedule, when all of our "normal" has been completely upside-downed, to be soothing. This book found me at a good time.
Format: NYPL hardcover, borrowed
Read for:
2020 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge Prompt 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge (2019, a book about a hobby - I am a runner, and I chose this one because I read in the blurb that Micah is a runner. This book isn't really about running, but it still works for me.)
Nothing too exciting—just an ordinary guy living an ordinary life, but a good listen nonetheless.