Jennifer's review
Blessings
by Anna Quindlen
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.
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.
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!
The writing was good and the characters were interesting. I thought the book in general was a little sad and the ending felt unfinished.
Jennifer's review
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
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
I guess it was the ending that jaded me...I reached the last sentence and looked for the missing pages because I...more
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.
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.
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!
The writing was good and the characters were interesting. I thought the book in general was a little sad and the ending felt unfinished.
