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A review by deadrocky19
The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page
2.0
This is my review of The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page. This is recommended by my mum. I wasn't really sure on this book. Like, I liked the characters and I liked the way it was written but I didn't really enjoy the story. I thought my mum recommended to me because she enjoyed it, but it turns out actually she didn't finish it and she wanted my opinion.
So I like powered through because I thought, oh, she's given it to me because, like, she thinks it's really good. But I might have not even finished it to be honest. This is mainly because it refers to a book from the eighteen hundreds that I haven't read. Vanity Fair by, William Makepeace Thackaray. Maybe if I realised or done my research that it was a book, I would have understood, like, the context of it more because they refer to the characters a lot.
But in my head I just kept thinking it was Vanity Fair the magazine, so I was very confused for a lot of the book until I researched it. The story is centred around a normal life of Janice. So she is a cleaner, and she goes around to other people's houses and organises and tidies them. But she always goes that one step for like, further. So she, like, helps glue together, like, a doll set and stuff.
But in her head, she's, like, collecting stories, and, like, pieces of information about people. And she, like, squirrels them way in her brain. And then she creates, like, imaginary scenarios in her head. The story was a little bit weird. It sort of implied that she had, like, a secret, and that's why she's collecting these stories because she didn't want her own, like, life story to come out.
There's also a story running alongside of her sort of imaginary relationship with her bus driver who turns out that he also had a crush on her, and they did get together in the end. So it was kind of a little romance in the end of the story. And it also talks about the relationship with her husband that she's sort of just with, because they've been together since she was, like, 18. He just uses her for, like, stability and money. He doesn't have a job.
He doesn't really have any prospects. And all the money that he has, he just, like, spends on going to the pub. And he shouts at her a lot. And it all sort of comes to head when he like uses all of their savings in the pyramid scheme. So she decides to leave him and that's when she gets with the bus driver.
So I liked like that development of her character because everyone was so surprised that she would leave her husband. And but it actually, like, made her relationship with her son stronger because he was like, mum, why are you still with him? There's also, like, quite a long a strong relationship with one of her clients who she considers, like, her best friend. And also one of her clients dogs that she walks regularly. So it's it's quite nice, like a little read, with all these like little characters in.
But I didn't really understand the character that referred to Vanity Fair a lot. Perhaps knowing this and maybe if I read like the synopsis of Vanity Fair I would enjoy her a bit more. And like the twist at the end there's a lot of build up to not a lot. But it was interesting to see, like, her story develop alongside, like, the all the other stories that she was telling. So, yeah, I would I did enjoy the book, but it wasn't really my cup of tea.
And as I said, I didn't really understand the whole Vanity Fair side of things.
So I like powered through because I thought, oh, she's given it to me because, like, she thinks it's really good. But I might have not even finished it to be honest. This is mainly because it refers to a book from the eighteen hundreds that I haven't read. Vanity Fair by, William Makepeace Thackaray. Maybe if I realised or done my research that it was a book, I would have understood, like, the context of it more because they refer to the characters a lot.
But in my head I just kept thinking it was Vanity Fair the magazine, so I was very confused for a lot of the book until I researched it. The story is centred around a normal life of Janice. So she is a cleaner, and she goes around to other people's houses and organises and tidies them. But she always goes that one step for like, further. So she, like, helps glue together, like, a doll set and stuff.
But in her head, she's, like, collecting stories, and, like, pieces of information about people. And she, like, squirrels them way in her brain. And then she creates, like, imaginary scenarios in her head. The story was a little bit weird. It sort of implied that she had, like, a secret, and that's why she's collecting these stories because she didn't want her own, like, life story to come out.
There's also a story running alongside of her sort of imaginary relationship with her bus driver who turns out that he also had a crush on her, and they did get together in the end. So it was kind of a little romance in the end of the story. And it also talks about the relationship with her husband that she's sort of just with, because they've been together since she was, like, 18. He just uses her for, like, stability and money. He doesn't have a job.
He doesn't really have any prospects. And all the money that he has, he just, like, spends on going to the pub. And he shouts at her a lot. And it all sort of comes to head when he like uses all of their savings in the pyramid scheme. So she decides to leave him and that's when she gets with the bus driver.
So I liked like that development of her character because everyone was so surprised that she would leave her husband. And but it actually, like, made her relationship with her son stronger because he was like, mum, why are you still with him? There's also, like, quite a long a strong relationship with one of her clients who she considers, like, her best friend. And also one of her clients dogs that she walks regularly. So it's it's quite nice, like a little read, with all these like little characters in.
But I didn't really understand the character that referred to Vanity Fair a lot. Perhaps knowing this and maybe if I read like the synopsis of Vanity Fair I would enjoy her a bit more. And like the twist at the end there's a lot of build up to not a lot. But it was interesting to see, like, her story develop alongside, like, the all the other stories that she was telling. So, yeah, I would I did enjoy the book, but it wasn't really my cup of tea.
And as I said, I didn't really understand the whole Vanity Fair side of things.