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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
relaxing
slow-paced
I read this for my Z book. It was much slower than I thought would be. It has aspects of the Radium Girls so I was intrigued.
It was painful to get through. The audiobook was horrible.
It was painful to get through. The audiobook was horrible.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No
Such a lovely, peaceful read. And it makes me surprisingly happy to read my town's name in a book!
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I liked this book.
It’s very short for a novel, about 161 pages in my version, but it packs in a lot and covers decades.
It’s mostly the interior life of a girl/woman living in rural Indiana (and briefly Illinois) from the about the 1920s through to the 1960s or 70s.
She’s only had a bit of education, but is curious about the world and thoughtful, and picks up what she can along the way. But mostly she works on her farm and thinks about her life and how to live it. (One of the books she has been given and comes back to repeatedly is a collection of essays by Montaigne, so she’s certainly in good company in the thinking about her life department).
There’s a nice interlude as a “radium girl” in Ottawa, IL that I enjoyed.
I didn’t give it a star rating because it’s kind of arbitrary — was this a four, only 3.75?
Regardless of how many stars it should have, I thought it was good and worth reading.
It’s very short for a novel, about 161 pages in my version, but it packs in a lot and covers decades.
It’s mostly the interior life of a girl/woman living in rural Indiana (and briefly Illinois) from the about the 1920s through to the 1960s or 70s.
She’s only had a bit of education, but is curious about the world and thoughtful, and picks up what she can along the way. But mostly she works on her farm and thinks about her life and how to live it. (One of the books she has been given and comes back to repeatedly is a collection of essays by Montaigne, so she’s certainly in good company in the thinking about her life department).
There’s a nice interlude as a “radium girl” in Ottawa, IL that I enjoyed.
I didn’t give it a star rating because it’s kind of arbitrary — was this a four, only 3.75?
Regardless of how many stars it should have, I thought it was good and worth reading.
"This encouragement, it seemed to her, ought though to come directly from upstairs and not from other people, and it bothered her that she had brought it up to Noah, that he might think she was after him about it. Maybe there was some [spiritual] feeling in him somewhere and maybe there wasn't, but it wasn't up to her or anyone else to go poking for it and applying bellows in any place but themselves."
"This encouragement, it seemed to her, ought though to come directly from upstairs and not from other people, and it bothered her that she had brought it up to Noah, that he might think she was after him about it. Maybe there was some [spiritual] feeling in him somewhere and maybe there wasn't, but it wasn't up to her or anyone else to go poking for it and applying bellows in any place but themselves."
An author who lived all over the world and then moved to Indiana. Great story. Great characters.
Another one selected for a challenge. An easy and interesting slice-of-life read. It did a nice job making the mundane compelling. Any of the passages with the glowing girls were striking in particular.