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The protagonist in “The Painter” is somewhat different from many other Heller novels. I very much enjoyed his complexity. The book made me feel, in some ways, similar to how I felt reading “The River”.
pickThe protagonist in “The Painter” is somewhat different from many other Heller novels. I very much enjoyed his complexity. The book made me feel, in some ways, similar to how I felt reading “The River”.
pickWhat a meaningful title. Sad but beautiful. The resilience, strength of women and the love of the natural world really shined for me.
pickI enjoyed this book about folks surviving, hiding, and subsisting in the San Luis valley. Lots of interesting, sometimes tragic, sometimes awful, and sometimes funny stories.
pickA family history, surrounded by the history of an era of the United States, early 1900s. I haven't exposed myself to a lot of information from that particular time, so this was interesting.
“A spiderweb‘s gleamings in the exposed roots of a cut bank. And in a tailwater pool: the spreading rings of rising trout, dapping silently like slow rain.”
A little bit of reading time before we go watch the grandbaby in his final soccer game of the season. 😊
so-soThere were parts of this I enjoyed along with parts I really disliked. I ended up skimming the last third because I was pretty tired of Ammalie by then.
