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A review by mamasquirrel
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
3.0
I have two comments on this book.
One, while the sense of family history and story and destiny caught me up emotionally and took me in, I found it fantastical. Could a family really have this strong genetic and historical character? Certainly not my family.
Two, I found the repetition used throughout the book somewhat annoying. Ok, it was largely to reinforce the symbolism of each phrase or detail, but I found that in addition to the "important bits" being repeated, seemingly meaningless details were also repeated over and over. The sister's "modernistic" house. The story and plite of the Ontarian farm workers.
Ok, make that three comments. In the light of the recent tragic death of Raylene Rankin, I couldn't help but think of the Rankin family and their place in East Coast history while I read this book.
One, while the sense of family history and story and destiny caught me up emotionally and took me in, I found it fantastical. Could a family really have this strong genetic and historical character? Certainly not my family.
Two, I found the repetition used throughout the book somewhat annoying. Ok, it was largely to reinforce the symbolism of each phrase or detail, but I found that in addition to the "important bits" being repeated, seemingly meaningless details were also repeated over and over. The sister's "modernistic" house. The story and plite of the Ontarian farm workers.
Ok, make that three comments. In the light of the recent tragic death of Raylene Rankin, I couldn't help but think of the Rankin family and their place in East Coast history while I read this book.