A review by eekhoorn
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson

4.0

Not my favourite Jackson, mostly because it's a bit too long and gets tedious at parts, and the writing style did not have the same cutting effect on me as the one in her other novels (it gets a bit more lyrical and descriptive at parts.) I felt she told too little and too much at the same time, going a bit overboard in describing characters/personalities, while at the same time leaving the reader with one too many loose ends for a completely satisfactory ending (although the last sentence? brr)

However I would happily read Jackson's shopping lists so not really sure what I'm complaining about. I most of all enjoyed the humour in this, some parts were just very funny. And I also enjoyed the first person narration of dr. Wright, as Jackson's apparently just as good at writing the pov of the absolutely despicable men in her novels as she is portraying them through another characters pov.