Monday, March 19, 2012

Book

Just finished Home by Marilynne Robinson.
I had a good word for it and it's gone, darn it.
IT was a book I had to read in bits. Not one to be hurried through. In part because it was slow moving. In part because I wasn't sure I liked it. HOnestly, I'm still not sure. It was well crafted I think, but perhaps a tad too philosphical for me. A modern prodigal son story. Kinda depressing in a 'that's life sometimes' way.

Pft, what a review.

3 comments:

silly rabbit said...

Slow books are hard for me. But I do try to press my way through them.

laura b. said...

I have read Housekeeping, but not Gilead or Home. I think I might have felt kind of the same about Housekeeping...

Churlita said...

I loved Housekeeping and then Marilynne Robinson moved to my town to teach in the workshop and I waited on her and she was fairly unpleasant as a customer. I just chalked it up to her having a bad day. I've read both Gilead and Home. I loved Gilead, but Home was a little harder for me to get into. I've heard she is an amazing teacher, though.