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Every time I start reading a book I love I find myself slowing down, setting the book down in the middle of a chapter, rereading a page or two, going back and reading an earlier chapter again—-doing anything, in short, in order to prolong the experience, to avoid the inevitable last page.
That’s how I felt about Unsheltered.
There is so much to admire about this book. The structure of the novel is brilliantly constructed. Kingsolver tells two stories, one in present day, and one just after the Ci ...more
That’s how I felt about Unsheltered.
There is so much to admire about this book. The structure of the novel is brilliantly constructed. Kingsolver tells two stories, one in present day, and one just after the Ci ...more
At first, I wasn't sure that I would like this book, but the more I read, the more entranced I got with the stories that seemed to mirror each other, even though they were more than a hundred years apart. The story takes place in a falling-down house in New Jersey, where there is a modern family who seem to be facing more than their share of tragedies. There is also an earlier family who lived there, and they, too, had their share of troubles and tragedies. The format of the book is that you rea
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this book was a disappointment and a struggle to finish. I did not find the characters developed at all and it was frustrating to try to understand why they even said or did the things that they did. I had a difficult time understanding that if the house was sooooo poorly built and was a shambles, how it had actually stood for 130 years. Why was this a surprise? nothing meshed. Iano was a cardboard cut-out, Zeke was a shallow uninteresting blob, Willa was an ostrich, Tig was the most interesting
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Sep 06, 2018
Curlysue
marked it as to-read
Sep 06, 2018
Beth
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Dec 06, 2018
Lori
marked it as to-read
