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msmichaela's Reviews (546)
Closely observed page turner about the daughter of an alcoholic father and a somewhat inattentive mother. I gobbled this up in just a few sittings, staying up way too late for at least two of them. It ends a hair too neatly but otherwise my criticisms are few.
Wonderful novel with a complex narrator, set here in a very recognizable Portland, ME.
Cannot believe I finished this underwhelming novel. The writing was sloppy and there is zero evidence that the MCs actually like each other—something that would seem to be a prerequisite for a decades-long pact to show up when the other members of the group summon them. Just a deeply dumb book.
Not sure what I thought about this novel of a lifelong friendship between two women who meet at junior college. The writing loops back on itself relatively frequently in a way I found a little annoying, and in some way the characters felt remote — as if the narration was from too far away. Or maybe I just didn’t like the main characters? Still, I don’t regret reading it.
Whew, do I have trouble with fiction that delves deeply into faith; I just don’t find it of interest at all. That said, Robinson’s writing is stunning, and I loved the way the narrator looped around to the same topics over time.
I miss the more narrative storytelling of Evicted, but Poverty is a ln incredibly powerful polemic. Hard to read without squirming at my own complicity (which is a good thing).
I think this is Jennifer Weiner’s best so far. The only flaws that took me out of the story related to a male character’s unsupervised involvement with middle school girls.
