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emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I liked this book.
It’s very short for a novel, about 161 pages in my version, but it packs in a lot and covers decades.
It’s mostly the interior life of a girl/woman living in rural Indiana (and briefly Illinois) from the about the 1920s through to the 1960s or 70s.
She’s only had a bit of education, but is curious about the world and thoughtful, and picks up what she can along the way. But mostly she works on her farm and thinks about her life and how to live it. (One of the books she has been given and comes back to repeatedly is a collection of essays by Montaigne, so she’s certainly in good company in the thinking about her life department).
There’s a nice interlude as a “radium girl” in Ottawa, IL that I enjoyed.
I didn’t give it a star rating because it’s kind of arbitrary — was this a four, only 3.75?
Regardless of how many stars it should have, I thought it was good and worth reading.
It’s very short for a novel, about 161 pages in my version, but it packs in a lot and covers decades.
It’s mostly the interior life of a girl/woman living in rural Indiana (and briefly Illinois) from the about the 1920s through to the 1960s or 70s.
She’s only had a bit of education, but is curious about the world and thoughtful, and picks up what she can along the way. But mostly she works on her farm and thinks about her life and how to live it. (One of the books she has been given and comes back to repeatedly is a collection of essays by Montaigne, so she’s certainly in good company in the thinking about her life department).
There’s a nice interlude as a “radium girl” in Ottawa, IL that I enjoyed.
I didn’t give it a star rating because it’s kind of arbitrary — was this a four, only 3.75?
Regardless of how many stars it should have, I thought it was good and worth reading.