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pattydsf 's review for:
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
”But it's not us and them anymore. It's us and us and us. It's always us. That's what they never tell you. Geez, Rose, I just want to do right. But there's no monsters, only people like us. Funny, but it hurts.”
Tim Winton and his book Cloudstreet have been on my reading horizon for quite some time. The book was published in 1991 and my library has had for many years. It took Robert Gray’s recent column (http://www.fresheyesnow.com/shelf-awareness-column/waiting-sharpens-the-senses-in-surfing-reading.html) to remind me that Winton is an author I have never read.
So, I checked out the audiobook and started to listen. I have lamented before that since I have retired, I don’t have as much listening time. It seemed to take me forever to finish this novel. I don’t mean that in a bad way – I just didn’t always have the time I wanted so that I could get on with my listening.
I loved this book. I got to meet the Lambs and the Pickles, two interesting families with very different approaches to life. I learned about Australia, specifically about Perth in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. I definitely got to think about what funny turns life can take when one isn’t looking. I got to spend about 13 hours in a world I knew nothing about.
I don’t have a particular type of book that I read. I read fiction and non-fiction, speculative fiction and more realistic fiction. I am an omnivore of books. However, it is books like Cloudstreet that I like best. Books where I fall into a world and when I come up for air, I am not sure where I have been.
Winton took me to Perth, Australia and to the best of his abilities (which are awesome) he showed me how the Pickles and Lambs lived their lives. It was an honor to spend time with all of them.
Tim Winton and his book Cloudstreet have been on my reading horizon for quite some time. The book was published in 1991 and my library has had for many years. It took Robert Gray’s recent column (http://www.fresheyesnow.com/shelf-awareness-column/waiting-sharpens-the-senses-in-surfing-reading.html) to remind me that Winton is an author I have never read.
So, I checked out the audiobook and started to listen. I have lamented before that since I have retired, I don’t have as much listening time. It seemed to take me forever to finish this novel. I don’t mean that in a bad way – I just didn’t always have the time I wanted so that I could get on with my listening.
I loved this book. I got to meet the Lambs and the Pickles, two interesting families with very different approaches to life. I learned about Australia, specifically about Perth in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. I definitely got to think about what funny turns life can take when one isn’t looking. I got to spend about 13 hours in a world I knew nothing about.
I don’t have a particular type of book that I read. I read fiction and non-fiction, speculative fiction and more realistic fiction. I am an omnivore of books. However, it is books like Cloudstreet that I like best. Books where I fall into a world and when I come up for air, I am not sure where I have been.
Winton took me to Perth, Australia and to the best of his abilities (which are awesome) he showed me how the Pickles and Lambs lived their lives. It was an honor to spend time with all of them.