I read this because I loved Crossing to Safety. And I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't. It was painful to watch the husband drag his family around a continent on a hopeless quest. (It reminded me a little too much of someone I used to date, but that's another story.)
BestBooks is a record of all of the books that I have read since November 2004, with brief descriptions and reviews.
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Blog Archive
-
▼
2004
(19)
-
▼
December
(19)
- Books about Food, Part II
- A Public Service Announcement
- babyville by Jane Green
- Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
- Books about Food, Part One
- Children's Literature
- Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
- I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Seibold
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime b...
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth, Jr.
- Middletown, America by Gail Sheehy
- Modern Manners by P.J. O'Rourke
- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
- The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
- A Perfect Arrangement by Suzanne Berne
-
▼
December
(19)
1 comment:
Julie, this book came highly recommended to me. Everyone I knew said it was their favorite. I felt about it exactly like you did-- just never found what was to love about it. The narrative style of the modern descendant telling the story of his progenitors was weird and I never understood what was supposed to be communicated in that structure. I did like the main characters, but in the end, I didn't see lot to love about the story. Wierd how people read books so differently.
Post a Comment