I loved this book. It actually reminded me of Thomas Hardy (like Tess of the D'Urbervilles, there's a very important letter to a beloved that tragically gets very, very lost and, like Jude the Obscure, there's a tragedy that is devastating and, aside from the rising misery factor, seems to come out of the blue) in more than one way. I also was deeply impressed by the way the author conveyed his love of medicine.
I like the idea of people loving their work. That interests me.
There's a lot of tragedy and loss in this book, but there's also a lot of wonderful stuff like characters that are very romantic and noble and self-sacrificing. Oh, I cried at the end!
Again, I read so much stuff about which I feel lukewarm, at best. I'm just thrilled to have read something that I loved.
I read this book for a reading group, and while two of the others loved it as I did, one member of the group was very direct about the fact that she did not - she found it heavy.
Trying to think of what she means, exactly, reminds me that I was in another group where the topic veered off to other books and writers and someone brought up Maeve Binchy and another person said, impatiently, "Oh, her descriptions are too long - when I come to one of them I just skip it." Wow, I said to myself. I never thought of Binchy as a wordy writer. I'm telling you, it's brutal out there with the readers who don't want their writers to offer them too many words!
I like the idea of people loving their work. That interests me.
There's a lot of tragedy and loss in this book, but there's also a lot of wonderful stuff like characters that are very romantic and noble and self-sacrificing. Oh, I cried at the end!
Again, I read so much stuff about which I feel lukewarm, at best. I'm just thrilled to have read something that I loved.
I read this book for a reading group, and while two of the others loved it as I did, one member of the group was very direct about the fact that she did not - she found it heavy.
Trying to think of what she means, exactly, reminds me that I was in another group where the topic veered off to other books and writers and someone brought up Maeve Binchy and another person said, impatiently, "Oh, her descriptions are too long - when I come to one of them I just skip it." Wow, I said to myself. I never thought of Binchy as a wordy writer. I'm telling you, it's brutal out there with the readers who don't want their writers to offer them too many words!
