The Long Answer by Anna Hogeland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this quiet but textured book with stories around infertility, family, sisterhood, and how we and our stories help each other.
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 Daily Joys – 191
Love my people. Watching Korean tv and resting.  Daily Joys – 190
Feeling light today. Grateful.  Daily Joys – 189
Better than I thought. We’ll take the win.
Heartfelt and beautiful book about family, sisterhood, loss and love. I enjoyed this story and recommend it.
Ok I know I am in the minority but I disliked this book. I found the characters stupid and despicable and I really felt awful by the time I was done reading it. I gave it two stars because I did keep reading it and some of the twists were interesting but I was of course able to guess the biggest ones and honestly, I was so unhappy by the end that I am sorry I read this book.
2.5 stars I am in the minority on this one or maybe I’ve read too many dystopian YA books by now that this was not interesting, not different or unique in any way except for the small twist of switching skin colors which was clever and interesting but not enough to make the book worthwhile for me. It might be the audio which I thought was terrible.  Daily Joys – 188
Lunch with a friend, walk with another. How lucky am I? 
Daily Joys – 187
Still loving painting.
4.5 stars Maggie O’Farrell is such a wonderful writer and this, her first novel, is no exception. This is the story of Alice who takes the train to visit her sisters and while there sees something so shocking that she has to turn around and go right back home and then walks into traffic and ends up in a coma. The novel unwinds in bits and pieces from there and shows us Alice and her family members, each with their own stories and bits and pieces of life until it all comes together. This is a rich, multi-layered story with wonderful characters. Highly recommended.
I know this book and story are very famous and I can give it 5 stars for the concept but overall I didn’t think the story was as compelling or interesting as the 250 pages warranted. Maybe it would have been a more interesting short story.
A YA novel about a girl who loses her mom and then her dad remarries a woman who lost her husband and has a son so they move from Chicago to LA and she has to assimilate to all the changes in a school full of new people who are not big fans of her. Until a secret boy starts emailing and texting her and they start connecting through shared loss. Beautiful story. |
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