Re: Can't put this book down.
Originally Posted by
carol
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I hope you enjoy it as much as I am doing ruthio.
As I said in my OP, it's a bit slow at first so bear with it. Once the past & present come together it's absolutely riveting...
I don't mind 'slow'.
Sometimes at the end of the day with a cuppa and half an hour or so before lights out it's lovely to pick up a book where you can just feel it wrapping its arms around you like a comfort blanket.
Books like this are a welcome change now and again from page turners that keep you up half the night!
I'm reading a wonderful american novel by Jane Smiley called Some Luck. It was recommended in the book page of the Saga magazine, I find their recommendations are always worth a look, and it follows a farming family in Iowa through the years from the end of the first world war to 1953. Each year is one chapter, and you witness the babies turning into children and adults and parents, you witness the highs and lows of every day life in a tough rural environment, the Depression, most of all the total absence of health and safety!
It's beautifully written and I'm totally engrossed!