Day 4 of #12Booksof2024
@Andrew65
pickQuietly touching.
A mother tells her daughters about dating a famous movie star (before he became a star.)
Usually, this kind of slow-paced, deliberately heartwarming, nostalgic type of storytelling is not for me. I steer away from the saccharine.
Ann Patchett creates a wonderful sense of place, her characters are believable, and her writing is lovely.
By the end, I did have an emotional response and it wasn't the one I was expecting.
Thank you very much @Cupcake12 for my #jolabokaflod treats! Merry Christmas and thanks so much for organising @MaleficentBookDragon
pickI enjoyed it in the end. Would have enjoyed it more if I'd not been in a bit of a reading slump
pickA story of a woman‘s acting and dating past, enfolded in the story of her current family life during the togetherness of the early COVID months
so-soThis has everything I usually love in a book…and yet, I didn‘t love it. I have no idea why really. Wrong timing? I know nothing about Our Town, the play the story centres around (but I never want to read about Emily or the Stage Manager again), I felt nothing much for the characters and just felt distanced from the whole thing. In fact I nearly gave up. The last 50 pages or so kind of won me round but I still feel ambivalent.
pickI just reread this one and loved it just as much the second time. This time I listened to the audio and it was as wonderful as everyone said. Since I knew the ending, I was able to focus more on the characters and less on the plot. The reflections of a woman to her adult children is beautiful. It‘s about memory and nostalgia, the secrets we hold and the experiences that shape us. I know it will stay with me.
