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4.5 stars. Started slow for me, but it all made sense in the end. Beautiful, descriptive writing. Characters with lots of depth. Loved how the author circled back around to everything in the Epilogue. Just a lovely story of an artist coming into her own. Highly recommend!
Perhaps you have to have the heart of an artist to understand this book
While I feel this book was well written, I didn’t like it much. The first half was enjoyable, but the second half, and especially the last quarter, was a bit hard to get through. I found the main character, Thea
Kronborg, to be selfish and unlikeable, and only became more so as the book progressed. She seems to take so much from her friends and family and the only thing she gives back to them is her success and her voice, whi ...more
While I feel this book was well written, I didn’t like it much. The first half was enjoyable, but the second half, and especially the last quarter, was a bit hard to get through. I found the main character, Thea
Kronborg, to be selfish and unlikeable, and only became more so as the book progressed. She seems to take so much from her friends and family and the only thing she gives back to them is her success and her voice, whi ...more
This book left me wondering what had happened. It lacked something of the richness and depth of other of her books I felt. I was left thinking that maybe achieving one's dreams lacked joy if there was no one to share with. I think it is definitely a classic, however.
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This was good, but not as good as My Antonia or Death Comes for the Archbishop. Ultimately, as many other reviewers have said, the main character is just not very sympathetic or likable. Of course it is still Cather's masterful writing, but it just didn't grab me or move me.
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Not my favorite of Willa Cather's. The book is all about one character and the magnetism of her talent and personality, but I wasn't drawn in.
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