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Tikay (USA: CA) (2011/10/01):
I have recently read bith The Good Mother and While I was gone by Sue Miller. I find her style of writing very engaging. I enjoyed these books profusely, and can't decide which is more favored. While this book spins a web of intrique, I found some parts incredibly difficult to read for becoming emotionally involved as in a really good movie. My empathy was really a participant to the artfully and beautifully written text. It seemed a memoir of sorts which may be my particularly favorite genre, these days.Written in the first person, and that always brings me right into the story...without spoiling the narrative, there is a very unexpected turn, and there, I was suspended once on the precipice, while sleep overtook me, but once back in I was taken over again with the force of the characters...i was utterly non-plussed at or near the end, where things did not exactly go as I would have liked...but we cannot write the endings as readers...even if our imaginings are wandering to kinder places. I would reccommend Sue Miller, and yes... this book will stay with me now, a sort of reference for me, to go with my (future dream of) eventually penning a werk all my own. warm regards~
dreaming tikay
EUGEBOY (USA: ID) (2013/01/10):
After reading many of the reviews already posted here, I find I cannot add anything more enlightening as to the story line. If you like good writing, you will like this book. I am a man (husband / father) and, as such, I find it interesting that while many of the reviewers (especially females) here on Goodreads sound as if they are judging Jo / Felicia negatively as cowardly for running “away” from her life; I can somewhat relate to to the sometimes overwhelming urge to spontaneously recreate ones life. I have notice that urge is often times related to reconnecting with someone from my past. I can understand how one might think they are in fact running “to” a new life more aligned with their hopes and dreams. Although I neither condone nor condemn those that give into that urge, I find it interesting that many reviewers here seem to have little compassion for Jo and, in fact seem to have strong feeling against her. It makes me wonder how many of them secretly envy Jo’s choices and her wherewithal to actually act on them. Just a little food for thought: Let those without sin...... etc. One final closing thought since I found myself using a bible reference above: Each of the Jesus’s followers walked away from their former lives and professions in order to follow their passions as did Christ himself. I wonder how my fellow reviewers feel about that? Eugene Boyle January 1oth, 2013 http://www.eugeboy.com(less)
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