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krobart's review
4.0
See my review here:
https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/review-1564-dangerous-ages/
https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/review-1564-dangerous-ages/
katod's review
funny
lighthearted
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
4.0
lianakay's review
funny
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
anaforgia's review
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
shereadsalotofbooks's review
4.0
You may know Macaulay from the first line of one of her other novels, The Towers of Trebizond:
"Take my camel, dear", said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
Dangerous Ages has plenty of that snarky humor and painful truth about four generations of women in a family and how they each navigate their ages and perceived expiry dates.
There’s 60 something Mrs Hilary who, ‘disliked nearly all novels, finding them tedious, vulgar, conventional, and out of all relation both to life as lived and to the world of imagination.’
So of course I disliked her right away although I related with her in other ways.
Then about the in-law Rosalind, ‘there was no doubt that the family party was happier for her departure. The departure of in-laws, even when they are quite nice in-laws, often has this effect on family parties.’
And a reflection from 40 something Neville,
‘To be aimless: to live on emotions and be by them consumed: that was pitiful. To have done one's work for life, and to be in return cast aside by life like a broken tool: that was tragic.’
Our small book club had mixed opinions on this one over breakfast but we’ve only met a few times so we are just getting to know the types of literature we are all interested in.
It did drag a bit in the middle but overall I recommend it if you like this sort of book.
"Take my camel, dear", said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
Dangerous Ages has plenty of that snarky humor and painful truth about four generations of women in a family and how they each navigate their ages and perceived expiry dates.
There’s 60 something Mrs Hilary who, ‘disliked nearly all novels, finding them tedious, vulgar, conventional, and out of all relation both to life as lived and to the world of imagination.’
So of course I disliked her right away although I related with her in other ways.
Then about the in-law Rosalind, ‘there was no doubt that the family party was happier for her departure. The departure of in-laws, even when they are quite nice in-laws, often has this effect on family parties.’
And a reflection from 40 something Neville,
‘To be aimless: to live on emotions and be by them consumed: that was pitiful. To have done one's work for life, and to be in return cast aside by life like a broken tool: that was tragic.’
Our small book club had mixed opinions on this one over breakfast but we’ve only met a few times so we are just getting to know the types of literature we are all interested in.
It did drag a bit in the middle but overall I recommend it if you like this sort of book.
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