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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
There was nothing I liked about this book. Rose was a boring, poorly-written character; I felt no sympathy for her and had no sense of her motivations, personality, etc. The writing was flat and uninteresting. I could not relate at all to her life revolving around men and it was really frustrating to read. The short-story style did absolutely nothing for the narrative; if anything, distracted from it and seemed like a lazy excuse to jump around chronology. I would not have finished this book if I hadn't been reading it for a class.
Not quite as good as other stuff of her's that I've read but still well worth the time. "Who do you think you are?" is a question that haunts Rose through her entire life and it's one that haunts all of us as well. Rose spends most of the book trying on different personas (or at least it seemed that way to me) with different people in her life to try and become someone not from small town Ontario. It stays with her despite it all.
Something I'm sure we can all relate to.
Something I'm sure we can all relate to.
Read the original book titles Who Do You Think You Are? (published as The Beggar Maid outside of Canada). My favorite short stories from the collective are "Wild Swans" and "The Beggar Maid."