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A review by we_are_all_mad_here26
Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie
4.0
This was so disturbing and maddening - but, in a good way?
No, I don't think I can say 'in a good way' about any of this book. Much of the reading was painful.
Being stranded in a rest house in the middle of the desert (fully provisioned and staffed with at least a few) may not sound so painful, but Joan was stranded without anything to read beyond the first day. That circumstance alone chilled me to the core.
Her self-reflection - even though I am not her, and I believe I am nothing like her - was intensely painful, for several reasons. One being her absolute obtuseness, another being her endless judgments, and still another being - good God, is she ever going to see things for what they are??
An then, of course, there is the question - but - am I, in certain ways, just like her?
Not a fun book to read. But really, a very good one.
No, I don't think I can say 'in a good way' about any of this book. Much of the reading was painful.
Being stranded in a rest house in the middle of the desert (fully provisioned and staffed with at least a few) may not sound so painful, but Joan was stranded without anything to read beyond the first day. That circumstance alone chilled me to the core.
Her self-reflection - even though I am not her, and I believe I am nothing like her - was intensely painful, for several reasons. One being her absolute obtuseness, another being her endless judgments, and still another being - good God, is she ever going to see things for what they are??
An then, of course, there is the question - but - am I, in certain ways, just like her?
Not a fun book to read. But really, a very good one.