Jennifer's review

Jennifer's review

Blessings Blessings
by Anna Quindlen

84676 Jennifer's review
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I've read plenty of books where nothing happens and I'm a-ok with that. If the writing is good, the characters solid, and the plot, somewhat progressive, then I can hang in there. Oddly, this book filled all of those requirements, and yet I wound up ambivalent. I appreciate the premise of the book - that one baby changes everything. A newborn baby is abandoned at the wealthy estate of an elderly woman who clings to consistency and all things past - she likes her coffee just so, her linens white, her doctors toting black bags. Yet it is the down-on-his-luck townboy, living above the garage and hired to tend the garden, who finds the baby and decides to raise her. Suddenly, single-secret-foster dad is wrestling with colic and the ridiculously wealthy old lady is tormented by her past. Everything about this story screams, "Lifetime...Television for Women."

I guess it was the ending that jaded me...I reached the last sentence and looked for the missing pages because I...more

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message 1: by Julie
08/23/2007 12:27PM

88323 Ooh! I really liked this one! I listened to it and it was a pleasant story about people. Not a lot of drama or trauma, just good.

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message 2: by Jennifer
08/23/2007 01:40PM

84676 You know, I was thinking that. I'm halfway through, and I realized, whoa, nothing has happened. But the writing is good, and I think I'm going to really like the whole book.

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message 3: by Jennifer
08/26/2007 05:23PM

84676 You'll have to forgive me, but I just bashed it in my review. I didn't like the ending!! How could she just end it that way?? Wah!

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message 4: by Connie
10/05/2007 11:47AM

Nophoto-f-25x33 The writing was good and the characters were interesting. I thought the book in general was a little sad and the ending felt unfinished.

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