Review: The Spectator Bird

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This is a hard one to review. While I was actively reading the book was pretty good. After I closed it for a while, I’d ask myself what happened in that last chapter. The answer was usually, “Nothing.” There were instances of nice character development, but overall it was rich Americans recount a trip to Denmark in the 1950s, where they met an eccentric, fallen countess that our protagonist may or may not fall in love with despit...