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A review by sjgrodsky
More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman
Did not finish book.
1.0
I’m quitting on page 165, having read about 2/3rds of the book. Even though I usually commit to finishing books that will be discussed by my book club, I just couldn’t continue this time.
I get that the book is a “reveal” as we learn about the past histories of the four characters. I get that a reveal is slow, as each small piece of the puzzle is shown.
Here is what I said to my book club “I just didn’t want to spend any more time in the company of such dysfunctional people.”
Most of the book club discussion focused on Vera’s abandonment of her daughter, with this group of (mostly) mothers, all comfortably middle-class, voicing some variation of “How could she? It is not possible to understand or forgive.”
After I confessed to quitting in the book, some confessed to finding it hard going.
This article, found in another review on Goodreads, describes Eva Panić-Nahir, the real person who serves as the model for Vera. The book is closer to reality than I knew.
https://www.haaretz.com/2003-07-10/ty-article/evas-choice/0000017f-e2aa-d568-ad7f-f3ebf1730000?_amp=true
I get that the book is a “reveal” as we learn about the past histories of the four characters. I get that a reveal is slow, as each small piece of the puzzle is shown.
Here is what I said to my book club “I just didn’t want to spend any more time in the company of such dysfunctional people.”
Most of the book club discussion focused on Vera’s abandonment of her daughter, with this group of (mostly) mothers, all comfortably middle-class, voicing some variation of “How could she? It is not possible to understand or forgive.”
After I confessed to quitting in the book, some confessed to finding it hard going.
This article, found in another review on Goodreads, describes Eva Panić-Nahir, the real person who serves as the model for Vera. The book is closer to reality than I knew.
https://www.haaretz.com/2003-07-10/ty-article/evas-choice/0000017f-e2aa-d568-ad7f-f3ebf1730000?_amp=true