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Marriage and family. It‘s not always easy. You have to work at it, compromise, and sometimes you find you are just not happy enough to stick it out in the long run. The characters also have many regrets in life, but life is about choices, growing, and learning along the way. Read this for a work program, senior center book club. #ReadHarder23 ~Read an author local to you #Pop23 ~A book about divorce

This is the character study of a marriage. It spans decades, an aspect which was done very well, and while not plot driven, it still kept me on my toes with surprises along the way!

I felt invested in this marriage and family, and had strong opinions on some of the characters and their actions, which always equals a pick for me! #darguschmarkupfamilybookclub

Going to make sure to start the morning off right as we finish out our last few days in quarantine.

This is my pick for the new edition of #darguschfamilymarkupbookclub. I‘m loving it—Tyler really captures the nuances of marriage. Hope my family agrees!

Regret, disappointment, anger, misunderstandings and the usual brilliant Anne Tyler characterisation; big issues here but written in such a way it washes over you in a comforting rather than distressing way. There was so much more going on here than you initially think. I‘m appreciating Anne Tyler more with every book. And the last line... 😢

I really liked this one. Sprawling the lives of the Antons, again not a lot happens but done excellent moments that's really held my attention.

Feel I may be entering a Anne Tyler binge period!!

#letspretendweremarried #princeofjuly @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

72 ~ The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (Kindle edition📱) ~ Started: 24.07.17 ~ Finished: 25.07.17
Rating: 5/5📚

It's my reading group tomorrow and as well as my suggestion of Plainsong we are reading the above and i really enjoyed it. A story of a marriage over 60years and a couple unsuited in many ways.

Its a rare treat to get the tram to work today and read a big chunk of this book with an author that i have mixed feelings about but im really enjoying this reading grp choice. Anyway I've met my wife off tram for Friday night beer 🍻 Happy weekend reading everyone.

An insightful exploration of family relationships, starting in the 1940s with a marriage between two people unsuited to each other. Chapters jump gradually forward in time, right up to the 21st century, giving an enjoyably epic sense to the drama, rather than getting mired in domestic troubles. Reminded me of Ann Patchett's Commonwealth and also Alice Munro's stories in Runaway. Audiobook narrated by Blair Brown is excellent.