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mrs_a_is_a_book_nerd's reviews
456 reviews
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
3.0
It was interesting. I like Bill Bryson's style. Some sections dragged on a bit, but on the whole, it was an enlightening read!
Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money: The Handbook of Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey
4.0
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo
3.0
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
2.0
Joyce Carol Oates' style is just not for me.
The book is written in a sort of stream of consciousness, internal thoughts style from the POV of Rebecca Schwarts. I couldn't finish it. It seems to be set in maybe the 40s or 50s... 60s MAYBE... her voice was too brash for my liking.
The character is clearly not stable. She's angry at the world--most prominently at her father, also her mother, at her traveling apparently unfaithful husband, at her job, at the old woman who watches her son while she works... she's even angry periodically at her small son, who may love his father more than her. Her internal monologue is frenetic and sometimes flatly unhinged.
There's plenty of suspense about what's going on, and implied layers of revelation about Rebecca's background. Her husband is a bit of a mystery--the nature of his work, if he's really unfaithful or if she's just paranoid; yet she craves him. A stranger appears early in the book and insistently mistakes her for someone else, a name that Rebecca keeps going back to as if it has significance.
These questions made me WANT to stick with it, but I just couldn't. There are too many other books out there calling to me.
The book is written in a sort of stream of consciousness, internal thoughts style from the POV of Rebecca Schwarts. I couldn't finish it. It seems to be set in maybe the 40s or 50s... 60s MAYBE... her voice was too brash for my liking.
The character is clearly not stable. She's angry at the world--most prominently at her father, also her mother, at her traveling apparently unfaithful husband, at her job, at the old woman who watches her son while she works... she's even angry periodically at her small son, who may love his father more than her. Her internal monologue is frenetic and sometimes flatly unhinged.
There's plenty of suspense about what's going on, and implied layers of revelation about Rebecca's background. Her husband is a bit of a mystery--the nature of his work, if he's really unfaithful or if she's just paranoid; yet she craves him. A stranger appears early in the book and insistently mistakes her for someone else, a name that Rebecca keeps going back to as if it has significance.
These questions made me WANT to stick with it, but I just couldn't. There are too many other books out there calling to me.