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gracetxgao's review
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
amyg88's review against another edition
5.0
I am loving this author. I never knew that Margaret Atwood was a 2.0 version of anything, but every time I read another book by Laurence, I keep seeing the 1.0 she comes from. This is a wonderful thing for a person who can't seem to read enough of either.
varja's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5
kansass's review against another edition
5.0
Me ha recordado mucho a una pelicula, "El Rio" de Jean Renoir. Una pena que Margaret Laurence no haya sido editada en castellano, una escritora inmensa a la altura de Alice Munro o Margaret Atwood.Qué buenas son las escritoras canadienses!!!!l
mig14's review against another edition
5.0
I love this book. I will read it regularly until I die.
Horses of the Night is my favourite, and always will be.
Horses of the Night is my favourite, and always will be.
heatherjosephinepue's review against another edition
4.0
Another brilliant Margaret Laurence novel. The novel is told in a series of fragmented, out-of-order short stories about protagonist Vanessa MacLeod's childhood and teenaged years in Manawaka, Manitoba. With themes ranging from the struggles of the depression to the struggles of the artist, the novel portrays the challenges of life in beautifully scripted prose. Each chapter -- or story -- seems to focus on another character who has, in their own unique -- and often brief -- way, influenced the life of the protagonist. Brilliant both in showing the impact brief acquaintances play in forming us and that all of us -- no matter how different -- face our own demons.
hurricanecait7's review against another edition
5.0
I was not expecting to love this, but it has fast become one of my favourites. These stories are exquisite. The writing is so perfectly distilled, there is nothing more and nothing less written then exactly what there should be. And what a perfect form for its subject matter. A series of self-contained short stories, inter-related through their characters and their narration by Vanessa Macleod for whom they are childhood memories, understood and related to us through the lens of her adulthood. The stories, like memories, are fragmented, revolving around moments of internal realization or external change, moments where some truth of self or life crystallizes for Vanessa. I loved all these stories, but of all of them I loved " The Loons" the best.