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From the blurb, it's not the type of book that would interest me but your "knot in my stomach" comment did it for me. It's on my TBR list. Thanks!
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I'm reading Commonwealth by Ann Patchett. I've read a bunch of her books and liked (very much) three of them. (In order of love to like: Bel Canto and The Patron Saint of Liars and Truth and Beauty.) This one started rocky for me but, in hoping for another Bel Canto, I persevered. Now, at 44%, I'm locked in. I want to see what happens.
I loved Bel Canto, so please let us know how it compares.
I'm finishing up Wild by Cheryl Strayed and liked it much more than I anticipated.
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I loved Bel Canto, so please let us know how it compares.
I'm finishing up Wild by Cheryl Strayed and liked it much more than I anticipated.
I'm at 91% and I don't want it to end. It compares well. Like I mentioned up-thread, it was a rocky start and I wasn't loving it. At 44%, I was engrossed. Now? I want it to last forever. It's great.
ETA (at just after noon): I finished Commonwealth. I wanted more. I wanted to know more about these characters; I wanted to know what they did and ate and thought until the day that they each died. Anyway, I thought it was terrific. Maybe not Bel Canto terrific -- it's been 15 years since I read that and I remember nothing except that I loved it -- but Commonwealth terrific in its own right.
I'm at 91% and I don't want it to end. It compares well. Like I mentioned up-thread, it was a rocky start and I wasn't loving it. At 44%, I was engrossed. Now? I want it to last forever. It's great.
ETA (at just after noon): I finished Commonwealth. I wanted more. I wanted to know more about these characters; I wanted to know what they did and ate and thought until the day that they each died. Anyway, I thought it was terrific. Maybe not Bel Canto terrific -- it's been 15 years since I read that and I remember nothing except that I loved it -- but Commonwealth terrific in its own right.
On the (very long) list it goes.
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I was very impressed by the book, partly because I found it to be one of the most brutally honest accounts of oneself that I've ever read.
Yes. She was brutally honest and unflinching about the things she had done. My only complaint (and this is going to make me sound like a jerk) is that I think she goes on a little long about all the losses and sad things in her life. I was mainly in it for the hiking, although I appreciated her ability to convey grief and loss and the transformative power of the journey. But I was more engrossed by the physicality of what she went through than the personal stuff. (I told you I'd sound like a jerk.)
Okay the perfume collector was one of the best books I have read to date and it blew me away at the ending . Ladies get this book and read it . I mean it really has the wow factor . I did not want it to end .
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Agree about Bel Canto. It's the only one I've read until now. I just started Commonwealth.
YAY!!! If you're like me -- and I think that you are -- you'll find the beginning a bit rocky. If you like it, you might also want to try Patron Saint of Liars. I read it in the early 1990s -- that long ago, when it first came out -- and, although I don't remember much of the story, I remember that I loved it. Her Truth and Beauty is a memoir of a great friendship and I really enjoyed that too.
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