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3.12 AVERAGE
3.12 AVERAGE
I listened to this audio book.
I am glad I could not skip ahead. I wanted to find out what happened, but had to wait for the reader to get to it.
I am glad I could not skip ahead. I wanted to find out what happened, but had to wait for the reader to get to it.
I didn't actually read this but I couldn't figure out how to remove it...
I was going to write this long review but the other negative reviews sum up the book so well I don't need to. It suffices to say that any book that takes me four months (instead of a few days) to read was a disappointment.
Didn’t like characters, seemed flat. Weird settings, fix hunting in RI, etc
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did, but I also wanted to throw this book across the room more than once. I can't exactly pinpoint what about it that didn't sit well with me - the author wrote beautifully - but I just couldn't seem to get into it.
It's all about me...thank you JG for pointing out what we dare not reveal.
I don't know what to say about this book...I am not sure I liked it. OK thought about this more. I listened to this book and I must admit that the reason I picked it up was because one of the narrators is Mary Louise Masterson, who I adore. It was interesting the author, Julia Glass read all of big-sister Louisa's parts and Mary Louise Masterson read the part of little sister Clem (short for Clement.
I found both sisters to be equally annoying in their own way but as a little sister, and coming from a family of just 2 girls I did relate to how these two sisters interacted with one another, and with their family.
There's a "big moment" in the book which I won't reveal but I will say to me it seemed so sudden and out of no where that at first I was really pissed and kind of annoyed by it. But after thinking about it...in real life...it is sudden and out of no where.
hmm...I don't know. Honestly I'm torn on this book.
The format it intriguing, switching back and forth between two sisters over the years, but it took me a few sections to figure out what was going on. We get each sister's perspective on a certain point in time, each moment has well-drawn minor characters and usually a strong sense of setting, and Louisa and Clem both manage to be sympathetic and flawed at the same time. But then we jump forward in time, and we rarely meet those characters again, and things are often left unresolved from one point in time to the next. It's almost like reading a series of short stories, all about the same characters, or maybe it's more lifelike - a person or situation looms large at one point, but then things move on. It was an interesting choice, in terms of how to tell the story, but I wanted a bit more - a bit more connection between the episodes and I would've been more drawn into the book, I think.
The audio version had promise - each sister read by a different person, making it easy to tell where you are in the story. The readings were a bit flat, and the two sisters ended up sounding fairly similar (although this could have been due more to similarities in writing style for the two voices). Not a bad audio version, but not outstanding enough to recommend. Overall, though, a nice piece of fiction if you're looking for a decent novel.
The audio version had promise - each sister read by a different person, making it easy to tell where you are in the story. The readings were a bit flat, and the two sisters ended up sounding fairly similar (although this could have been due more to similarities in writing style for the two voices). Not a bad audio version, but not outstanding enough to recommend. Overall, though, a nice piece of fiction if you're looking for a decent novel.
Now I'm ready to read some more Julia Glass. I thoroughly enjoyed my time spent with this book. The characters are well-developed. I should have written this review when I finished the book.
Not as strong as her other books. Kind of a disappointment. I just didn't care about the two sisters that much.