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2.96 AVERAGE
2.96 AVERAGE
Thoroughly unsatisfying. I'm all for finding lost loves, but I found these characters, who so cavalierly threw away their lives for a distant memory, to be somewhat repelling. Not to mention that they completely disregarded how their rediscovered lost love might affect the people in their current lives. Very disappointing ending. Harrison, you rogue.
Couldn't get into this book and just gave up. I found the characters and their background very confusing and just too much work to understand what was going on. Life is too short to read books that don't captivate you, sorry!
slow-paced
Overall, I enjoyed this book about a reunion of high school friends who come together for a wedding, although it was a fairly large leap of faith to figure out why this particular group was all invited--and came--to the wedding. Bridget and Bill dated in high school, but didn't reconnect until they were in their 40s, just after 9/11. Bridge has breast cancer; Bill left his wife to be with her. The stories of relationships aren't the most uplifting--seems there's little hope for solid marriages in this world--but the characters were well drawn and I did like how all of the action took place over the course of a single isolated weekend. It ended a little too neat and tidily, but it was a book I looked forward to returning to each night.
A very nice story about what it is like for friends to reunite after 26 years apart. There is much more to the story - a shocking death when they were 18, divorce, romances, cancer, etc..
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
The beginning of this book was a little annoying to me because it read like a sappy chick flick movie. "Nora" and "Harrison"? All I could see was Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, in this very austere setting. Having said that, I suppose it could be looked at in another way, that the author was very good at painting a picture. The story goes that a group of old friends from a private east coast high school gather together to celebrate the wedding of two of their own. Some of them have kept in better touch than others, but most of them have some sort of unsettled issues that they work through over the course of the weekend. One of the friends, Agnes, is a budding writer herself, and spends her free time writing a historical novel. The novel is included as part of this book, and I actually found it more interesting than the main plot. There is a lot of hype around Anita Shreve, and since this is not one of her better-known works, I will read another - but I would not recommend this one.
Maybe I shouldn't have been reading this in the frenzied run up to Christmas. Maybe its a between Christmas and New Year book but I just found this too boring. A group of middleaged people meet up for a December wedding and over the weekend all the secrets come tumbling out but ultimately nothing changed.
The wedding brings back together high school friends who are now in their forties. A great story as characters deal with unresolved issues from their high school days.