pickOh wow. Pick because it was very well written, and I was so intrigued. But so challenging! The husband is an absolute nightmare. And yet I also feel for him at certain points because of his undiagnosed mental illness and am irritated by her for staying.
pickThis was my #bookspin for May 2021! I want recognition for reading it please...😉
This was very slowgoing, about the ordinary and inner life of a woman who never dared. She lived during the First and Second World War and just did what was expected of her as a woman.
It's an interesting story, but it's definitely something you need to be in the mood for. It doesn't deserve the bad reviews.
TBR since June 18th. 2011; 318 pages.
@TheAromaofBooks
A highly #underrated novel. My cover on the right, one I like better on the left. #30JuneBooks @howjessreads
Four books from my Smiley shelf with a lot of sky. #showusyourcover @kaye
1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote;
2. Private Life by Jane Smiley;
3. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett - not exactly a triangle, but . . .;
4. Science Fiction or Graphic Novels;
5. Edward from Twilight;
6. Jodi Picoult;
7. Thirty-something women who drink to excess and so aren't believed, even though they saw what happened;
8. Game of Thrones;
9. None.
@Rachael5248
pickI finished this last night, in time to be my #titlestartswiththeletterp for #bookishspring2017. It's a quiet novel, in spite of the many historic events its protagonist lives through. But give it the time it deserves and it packs a wallop. Heartbreakingly beautiful, or just heartbreaking? I'm still not sure. @maich
"It was particularly painful all of a sudden to know that her friends and relatives valued her life not for anything she had done, but for what she had put up with." Balthazar is keeping me company while I enjoy this quiet but deceptively powerful book. #catsoflitsy
"Once again, the curious thing was how strange and forceful the world was, how it battered and clanged and could not be withstood, and yet some individuals withstood it while others did not."
"Of course there were those, in the following days, who drew that customary analogy between the notoriously sinful ways of the people of San Francisco, most especially those denizens of the Barbary Coast, and those of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, which people always draw." (Referring to the San Francisco earthquake.) #themorethingschange
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