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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
This reads like a boring Kent Haruf novel. And some people probably think Kent Haruf novels are boring. (I like Haruf).
This is probably a 3.5 but I did enjoy it! I just felt the ending was a little sudden and left some things unexplored. A sweet book and a good read for the close to middle age millennials who feel a bit adrift ha.
I enjoyed this book. Light and entertaining. The characters were well formed.
Strange little book. I really didn't care much for the main character, Micah, at all. I found him so terribly narrow. In the very start of the book, he's visiting a tech client, an elderly woman who comments that she's going to buy her granddaughter an African-American doll (she and the granddaughter are white). Michah replies that that would be weird (or something to that effect). Boom, I'm done with this guy and the book has barely started. He was also so rigidly set in his ways that I thought he might be somewhat cognitively challenged - which would be fine, if he weren't so unpleasant. He seemed to lack a sense of humor and came across as a very old, crotchety old man even though he's only in his early 40's. His life bored me. He bored and aggravated me. He had the sensitively of a bag of rocks, and had zero capacity to read a room. No thanks.
Meh.
There was a time when I really enjoyed a book by Anne Tyler. There wasn’t anything wrong with this story, it just was neither here nor there for me. I did not find Micah compelling.
There was a time when I really enjoyed a book by Anne Tyler. There wasn’t anything wrong with this story, it just was neither here nor there for me. I did not find Micah compelling.
I think 2 stars is generous! I have loved Anne Tyler's books in the past. This one was just a waste of paper and ink.
I usually love books by Anne Tyler, but this one felt insubstantial and forced, as if she were using a checklist while applying all her usual devices.
Meh. Author has a way with words ... however a 'day in the life' is not what I'm interested in.