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gp13's review
Struggled to get into the book. Definitely a good one for reading in one sitting.
obscuredbyclouds's review
2.0
I honestly read this while in a really weird headspace, so take the rating with a pinch of salt. i'll have to eventually revisit this because I hardly understood anything at all.
nadia_g's review
5.0
I don't think I've read anything that comes close to the world Eudora Welty captures, or to the language she uses to paint it.
Moon Lake is filled with sparkling colours, tenderness, sensuality, but also with shadows, cast by the weight of individual and collective tragedies, and the intensity of the silence that envelops them.
In such a short space, Welty creates a remarkable balance between not only what makes the best and the worst in our lives, but also shows how short is the distance between these two fundamental experiences.
Moon Lake is set in summer. A group of children half made of local kids and half of the county orphans are taken to camp at the local lake called 'moon lake' for a week.
Welty follows the group-dynamics of children and adults, and focuses on three girls that become close until the last day of their stay during which something almost fatal happens to one of the girls.
Her description of water and of the quality of the night in this were mesmerizing.
Moon Lake is filled with sparkling colours, tenderness, sensuality, but also with shadows, cast by the weight of individual and collective tragedies, and the intensity of the silence that envelops them.
In such a short space, Welty creates a remarkable balance between not only what makes the best and the worst in our lives, but also shows how short is the distance between these two fundamental experiences.
Moon Lake is set in summer. A group of children half made of local kids and half of the county orphans are taken to camp at the local lake called 'moon lake' for a week.
Welty follows the group-dynamics of children and adults, and focuses on three girls that become close until the last day of their stay during which something almost fatal happens to one of the girls.
Her description of water and of the quality of the night in this were mesmerizing.
chianna_li's review
2.0
I read this for college. If I had read it alone I probably would not have enjoyed it very much. There is a lot going on, the climax is starting and the ending feels like it kind of trails off. It is obviously a piece that should be read for deeper meaning, but that is precisely the thing that makes in unenjoyable from a reading standpoint rather than analytical one.
nadiasfiction's review
5.0
I don't think I've read anything that comes close to the world Eudora Welty captures, or to the language she uses to paint it.
Moon Lake is filled with sparkling colours, tenderness, sensuality, but also with shadows, cast by the weight of individual and collective tragedies, and the intensity of the silence that envelops them.
In such a short space, Welty creates a remarkable balance between not only what makes the best and the worst in our lives, but also shows how short is the distance between these two fundamental experiences.
Moon Lake is set in summer. A group of children half made of local kids and half of the county orphans are taken to camp at the local lake called 'moon lake' for a week.
Welty follows the group-dynamics of children and adults, and focuses on three girls that become close until the last day of their stay during which something almost fatal happens to one of the girls.
Her description of water and of the quality of the night in this were mesmerizing.
Moon Lake is filled with sparkling colours, tenderness, sensuality, but also with shadows, cast by the weight of individual and collective tragedies, and the intensity of the silence that envelops them.
In such a short space, Welty creates a remarkable balance between not only what makes the best and the worst in our lives, but also shows how short is the distance between these two fundamental experiences.
Moon Lake is set in summer. A group of children half made of local kids and half of the county orphans are taken to camp at the local lake called 'moon lake' for a week.
Welty follows the group-dynamics of children and adults, and focuses on three girls that become close until the last day of their stay during which something almost fatal happens to one of the girls.
Her description of water and of the quality of the night in this were mesmerizing.
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