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Jun 24, 2013
Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
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Ann Hood...Anita Shreve...Anne Tyler...We all have our favorite authors. You know you will get a good book from these authors, though you never know exactly what form the story will take. I like that.
Ann Hood’s The Obituary Writer did not disappoint. Two stories converge in The Obituary Writer, one the story of a young expectant wife in a Kennedy-dazzled 1963 America, and the other the story of a Victorian age woman desperately seeking her lover after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The stor ...more
Ann Hood’s The Obituary Writer did not disappoint. Two stories converge in The Obituary Writer, one the story of a young expectant wife in a Kennedy-dazzled 1963 America, and the other the story of a Victorian age woman desperately seeking her lover after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The stor ...more
Jan 30, 2013
Lisa of Hopewell
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EXCELLENT from beginning to end. Nearly cried when it was over. Anne Hood is a favorite contemporary author of mine. I met her in her debut novel, Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, and have enjoyed her ever since. The Obituary Writer tells the alternating story of Claire and Vivien, two women from different generations united by motherhood, by grief and by love. While there were some glaring editorial errors in this book, the story was amazing. I struggled only to put this down. Like Mr. Emerson
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This is a marvelous book that I would recommend. It follows two women in different decades and how, in the end, their lives connect. I enjoyed the roles that these women played in their individual decades and how they both handled difficult situations in their lives.
Not my cup of Darjeeling tea. I am sick of parallel stories told in 2 different time frames. It is becoming cliche and seemed unnecessary to me. The voice on the audio book was just annoying. I also thought it trivialized adultery . There were some touching and revealing ideas about grief, but overall I should not have read this book. I feel bad when I pan a book because I imagine it is very hard to write one.
Dec 30, 2013
Vesra (When She Reads)
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Andy Plonka
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