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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
After reading all the great reviews of this book, I feel like I'm the odd one out giving it a two-star rating. I really did try to like it. This is my first book by this author and from the start, I felt her writing and story telling is similar to that of Maeve Binchy. The storyline is quite flat, but what makes up for it is the descriptions of the location and characters. What I found with this book is that it was confusing and hard to follow the characters in what they were doing because there were so many in so many different places and their connections were not always clear. It was not a book I was eager to read and found myself almost dreading reading it because I found it required so much concentration. When I'm in school, I want anything that doesn't require much attention and I can enjoy the read. This is to say I may try another one of her books later, but for now, it will be low down on my to be read pile.
Rosamund Pilcher paints such vivid word pictures in "September" you can smell peat smoke from the the village chimneys. Made to feel like part of the family, the reader is pulled right in to a long overdue reunion where inevitably people’s flaws are revealed. Like a hearty Scottish meal, this book satisfies, making you glad you lingered at the table, then stayed for a night cap—in this case, whiskey and soda.
I really liked this book. Rosamunde Pilcher does a great job with developing her characters, and I loved getting to see how they developed and interacted with each other over time. The plot concept was very interesting as well- the entire book revolves around this one party, but we only meet the girl whose party it is for a few pages at the very end, and there are so many different storylines even because of this fact.
+ 309 'Archie Balmerino is the Laird, which means he owns the village & 100s of acres of land. Croy is enormous, but he's not in the least grand, & neither is Isobel. Isobel works harder than any woman I know, which is saying sthg in Scotland bc all the women beaver away endlessly. If they're not running huge houses, or bringing up children, or gardening, then they're organising enormous charity events or engaged in some home industry or other. Like running farm shops and selling all their own produce, or drying flowers, or keeping bees, or restoring antiques, or making the most beautiful curtains for people'
356-7 'it's a touchy subject. The Scot spine is our indigenous tree, not Sitka spruce from Norway, nor lodgepole pine from NA. & it depends on how well the woodland is husbanded. But a tightly packed stand of Sitka spruce destroys the breeding ground of upland birds bc they won't nest within 900 yds of it. It harbors too many predators--foxes & crows. & I'm not simply talking about grouse but redshank & golden plover & curlews as well...Harebells, cotton-grass, rare mosses & fungi, bog asphodel...'