A review by teaandbooklover
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

2.0

This has to be one of the most boring books I've ever read. Nothing happens! I felt as if I were back in the midwest listening to my relatives mindlessly chatter and gossip about people. Plus the way the language in the book is written was just so annoying. For example: "You wouldn't think such a great creatur' 's I be could feel all over pins an' needles. I remember, the day I promised to Nathan, how it come over me, just's I was feelin' happy's I could, that I'd got to have an own cousin o'his for my near relation all the rest o' my life an' it seemed as if die I should. Poor Nathan saw somethin' had crossed me, -he had very nice feelings, -and when he asked what 'twas, I told him. 'I never could like her myself,' said he. 'You shan't be bothered, dear,' he says; an 'twas one o' the things that made me set a good deal by Nathan, he did not make a habit of always opposin', like some men." And on and on it goes.

If you like to read almost entire books like this, then you'll probably like it. Me? I wanted to throw it across the room many times!