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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
Great story, good writing. I enjoyed this book more than Bel Canto
I really enjoy Ann Patchett's writing. It is easy reading and has thoughtful insights into the world of interesting characters. She really captures feelings amongst all the characters involved. The story takes place over 24 hours during a snowstorm near Boston and involves people of privilege and people of somewhat poverty. Eventually, these people connect in different ways and their worlds are opened as they never expected.
lots of perspectives of the same fanily. a couple of interesting, though somewhat unbelieveable, twists.
Classic Ann Patchett with great characters and rich family saga. There's a bit of a mystery that slowly unfolds, but will surprise readers. I love when writers don't tie up every loose end in the last chapter, so some readers won't like the ending, but I thought it was perfect.
fast-paced
Y’all probably think I’m crazy cause I give every Ann Patchett book five stars. I’ll stop when she stops!
“The present life was only a matter of how things had stacked together in the past, and all Kenya knew for sure was that if she had the chance to hand over everything she had now in order to regain what was lost there would be no words for how fast she would open up her hands. It had been fine out there with her mother, it had been paradise, when they were only watching.”
“The present life was only a matter of how things had stacked together in the past, and all Kenya knew for sure was that if she had the chance to hand over everything she had now in order to regain what was lost there would be no words for how fast she would open up her hands. It had been fine out there with her mother, it had been paradise, when they were only watching.”
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I gave this audio book 2 disks. The characters were flat and stereotyped with no assessment behind those stereotypes. While there were occasional brief passages of really beautiful writing or imagery (I enjoyed the observations of the brother in the ichthyology stacks), the writing was oversentimentalized, often listless, and too impressed with its own "plot" -- she uses prolepsis to a fault.I give it a one and a half star because I didn't actively dislike it, just didn't care to finish it.
hopeful
medium-paced
The best thing about this book is the young girl with an inquisitive mind, Kenya, who loves to run. Ann Patchett must be a runner, because she perfectly describes the feeling of *needing* to run and the release of movement. Seeing the world through Kenya’s eyes is wonderful. The worst thing? Everything else. Run falls into the “quirky men living in old houses without women who banter/don’t talk” trope that I usually associate with Ann Tyler’s books. Slow-paced plot … but yet too many turns. Patchett is such a wonderful writer that she could’ve REALLY slowed this down, dropped some contrived plot points, and written a tone-poem to the meaning of family. Kenya could’ve had it all.