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I wasn't sure about this one initially - I've read 3 books by this author - and I loved one, thought one was OK and loved the other until about 90% of the way through the book and the final 10% was incredibly disappointing, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect of this. Especially since it was giving us a different perspective on Mr March, the father of Louisa May Alcott's Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, who seems such a godly and dependable man in the little we see of him in Little Women - I wasn't sure
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I've given this four stars because I acknowledge that it is impeccably researched, incredibly well written and admirable in scope and I don't really like the star system on goodreads.
I didn't like it. I think for me this novel would have been more effective if it hadn't been so cruelly tied to Little Women, if it had been entirely an invention with lots of insider nods to Louisa Mae Alcott's work. It wasn't so much that I minded where she took March and Marmee (okay, I did mind - but I can see h ...more
I didn't like it. I think for me this novel would have been more effective if it hadn't been so cruelly tied to Little Women, if it had been entirely an invention with lots of insider nods to Louisa Mae Alcott's work. It wasn't so much that I minded where she took March and Marmee (okay, I did mind - but I can see h ...more
Geraldine Brooks never ceases to astound and delight with her command of the English language. The research that usually goes into her historical fiction is equally impressive. In this instance (in the book March), she combines her penchant for historical research and her love of language and the result is an exquisite voice of a narrator who speaks in a vernacular that suits the era she is writing about.
Her command of metaphor adds to the reading experience, as the reader is immersed in colourf ...more
Her command of metaphor adds to the reading experience, as the reader is immersed in colourf ...more
I enjoyed aspects of this book.... The fact that it was set during the American civil war and the references to Henry Thoreau and 'Walden Pond', which I loved when I read it years ago. However, I found March was annoyingly naive and he never seemed grow as a character. Also his wife's perceptions of his intentions seemed out of kilter with his own perceptions, and didn't seem to 'ring true'. March never seemed to endear himself to other characters in the book and therefore was difficult to warm
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Geraldine Brooks really knows how to draw the reader into the scenes she paints so vividly with her words. The father from "Little Women" is known and understood by the reader, as we travel alongside the river of his life from boyhood to a father and husband immersed in war torn America. March is a sensitive and caring man that the reader truly cares about, and the author has us gripping the pages and ignoring all outside interferences while we eat up the pages, eager to learn what happens next.
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