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A review by maryehavens
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
3.0
Soooooooo
My 3rd Lisa Genova and I think I'm going to need a break.
I wanted to read this because I really like her writing style. But 25 pages in, I had to put it down because I was overcome with emotion. Three books later, I picked it up again and got through.
It was easy to read. The subject matter was autism and I was interested in that, specifically, because I know nothing about it.
The parts where Beth was writing as Anthony were very hard to read. The passages are good in that they get you into an autistic mind but the repetition was killing me. And that's the point, right? But it doesn't make it any easier to read and deal with. Which, again, is the point.
The other parts, with the infidelity, self-discovery, etc. were good and I related to it. But it just kind of limped along for me. At one point, Genova writes "She held her sandals in her peace fingers" and that made me want to abandon the book right there. But I stuck with it because I had 30-ish pages left.
Bottom line: meh. It wasn't terrible and I'm glad I read it for the insight into autism. I would like to read a really good autism book next. I guess this was kind of a primer.
My 3rd Lisa Genova and I think I'm going to need a break.
I wanted to read this because I really like her writing style. But 25 pages in, I had to put it down because I was overcome with emotion. Three books later, I picked it up again and got through.
It was easy to read. The subject matter was autism and I was interested in that, specifically, because I know nothing about it.
The parts where Beth was writing as Anthony were very hard to read. The passages are good in that they get you into an autistic mind but the repetition was killing me. And that's the point, right? But it doesn't make it any easier to read and deal with. Which, again, is the point.
The other parts, with the infidelity, self-discovery, etc. were good and I related to it. But it just kind of limped along for me. At one point, Genova writes "She held her sandals in her peace fingers" and that made me want to abandon the book right there. But I stuck with it because I had 30-ish pages left.
Bottom line: meh. It wasn't terrible and I'm glad I read it for the insight into autism. I would like to read a really good autism book next. I guess this was kind of a primer.