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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
I just couldn’t get into this, almost read like a children’s chapter book
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Reads like a classic, like something you’d read for a college class on mid-century mid-American lit. Resonant of Marilynne Robinson and Betty Smith, with nods to Virginia Woolf.
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I have had this book since Russell of Ink and Paper Blog had listed it as one of his top 10 picks of 2021, but I never got around to it. I was looking for a quiet novel and this was perfect. Zorrie is an orphan who lives with her aunt in Indiana. When she finishes school, she moves to Illinois to find a job, and finally finds work in a clock factory, painting glow in the dark dials with radium paint. Homesick for Indiana, she moves back and begins her life as a farmer's wife. This is a serious novel, but there is comfort in Zorrie's life as she navigates life in farm country with its dependence on the changing seasons and weather. A hard worker, with a steady temperament, Zorrie is able to navigate life's highs and lows and helps her friends do the same. Laird Hunt has written a beautiful novel, descriptive of Indiana farm country and the people who live in small towns. Thanks to Russel and The Book Cougars, Chris and Emily for putting this novel into my hands.
Really fast-paced yet nothing happens.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm not even sure how to describe it or what I didn't like or liked. Here is am example of what I didn't like. The writer would tell you about an incident but leave you hanging as to the outcome. Then several pages later when they were onto another topic the outcome of that previous incident would come up but it was out of sync and lacked the bigger impact it could have made of it had been told chronologically. Not even sure if I described that well.
But it was a lovely story about a woman who lived in Indiana. It started around the Depression so there was lack of food and jobs. It explored the Ghost Girls. You'l have to look to who they are in depth because they're facinating but in short they were women who handled radium and were told it was safe and good for you. Only later did they discover it wasn't.
It explored friendship and love and unrequited slow simmering love. Hope you enjoyed my non sequitur kind of review. Enjoy your reading.
But it was a lovely story about a woman who lived in Indiana. It started around the Depression so there was lack of food and jobs. It explored the Ghost Girls. You'l have to look to who they are in depth because they're facinating but in short they were women who handled radium and were told it was safe and good for you. Only later did they discover it wasn't.
It explored friendship and love and unrequited slow simmering love. Hope you enjoyed my non sequitur kind of review. Enjoy your reading.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Large moods in a slender frame - the book and its leading character are quietly powerful in their impact and presence. Despite the brevity of Laird Hunt's prose, he writes beautifully and evocatively with a mix of the plain and the metaphoric that give this novella a weight greater than the number of its pages suggest. It's a wistful, melancholic story of Zorrie Underwood's hardworking life in early 20th-Century Indiana, swaying like the tide to and from her past and present, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of the lives of those she has known. It's a tale of loss - of many losses - and the ways in which grief can or cannot be expressed; the ways in which bereavement can or cannot be reconciled.
