Status Updates From Bridges of Sighs

haven’t gotten into it yet. Set aside.

Patiently observed and beautifully rendered.

No

I paused as I needed to take it back to the library

dragging

I’m loving this story so far.

Idk why I'm reading this never-ending book about nothing. But I'm going to keep going.

I enjoying this book so far, even though the New Yorker wrote what has to be one of the snootiest positive /not positive reviews I think Ive seen:
“ A high quality soap opera…[drama] is modestly scaled, but his anthill is convincingly alive with ants.”

Lol.

365

50 pages in this isn’t grabbing me and I’m giving up

Didn’t finish

30

30

Second reading.

It was good but disappointed that the trip to Italy didn’t happen.

Hier zit zeker een goed verhaal in, niet slecht verteld ook. Maar het boek had gerust 300 pagina’s korter mogen zijn. Dit leest als een trein die stilstaat… Nog even…

“…and I learned then that no matter how hard you try, you can never empty yourself of tears.”

Many layered characters.

“That’s what our parents are. The first mystery we encounter in a mysterious world.”

“Your dad’s nice,” she said without looking at me. “All the way down. Most nice people are nice just partway.”

Once you knew something better, my mother always said, it was hard to go backward in life because even if you’d once been happy with less, more—the knowledge of more—was always with you.

.....and on it goes, I'm sure something major is going to happen, surely

This is proving to be a b it of a battle.......but I think there's something interesting coming up. Is there????

Probably sitting at 3.5 to 4 stars at the moment

.........yes this is good

Gave up. Didn’t like it.

Happy to finally have begun this book. Feel like I’m in safe and trustworthy hands.

“In one other respect, I’m also my father’s son:we are both optimists. It is our nature to dwell upon our blessings. What’s given to us is more important than what’s withheld, or what’s given for a time and then taken away.”

Not sure if I will finish this book. Have not kept up much interest in it.

What a long, well-written, male-centered, disappointing book! 90% through and honestly don't care what happens in the conclusion. Found out (as I'd expected) that the main character and his wife don't get to go to Italy after all. Phoo. While the rest of us can't travel overseas, surely this pre-COVID fictional character could intuit and help fulfill his wife's dream for once...before it's too late? Nope.

J’ai du mal à continuer....