pickI read this on an 8-hour flight, and even being packed in with 300 strangers, I could not stop myself from crying at the end. Incredibly moving and well written. One of the 10 best books I've read, ever.
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pickI read this on an 8-hour flight, and even being packed in with 300 strangers, I could not stop myself from crying at the end. Incredibly moving and well written. One of the 10 best books I've read, ever.
pickJust stunning. The literal and figurative emptiness of the main characters is going to stay with me for a long while. I wouldn't want to be friends with them, but I do kind of want to give them a good hug.
pickThis book has just about convinced me to read every book that's ever won the Man Booker Prize. (This is the 1989 winner.) It was simultaneously poignant, subtle and heartbreaking. I loved it!
panDidn't like this one; the Downton Abbey tie-in did not work for me at all. The character development was totally on the nose. Each character had about 3 assigned characteristics that defined them up until the last couple of chapters, when all flaws were corrected just in time for the happy ending.
pickPicked this one to fill the "from the bottom of the TBR pile" square in book bingo. I was reading Big Magic at the same time, so this fictional story of the way an artist's art mirrors her changes in life dove-tailed and made both books even more enjoyable.
pickWhat is it about this book?? It's wildly different from The Red Tent; it's written in straightforward, no-frills language; it's very much an immigrant in America/the times they are a-changin' trope, and the plot and characters aren't complex. But I loved every bit of it.
