Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
It Begins:
Willa Drake and Sonya Bailey were selling candy bars door-to-door.
On Page 56:
There were tumbling green hills resembling bunches of fresh parsley, and mysterious hollows already darkening in the late-afternoon shadows, and nearer to the highway little cabins sat surrounded by rickrack fences and ramshackle sheds, washing machines on their front porches, hound dogs splayed in the dirt yards, tractors rusting out back.
Verdict:
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I recently learned that my town's library (not part of the county system I work for) has a book club. So I decided to check out the first meeting. I've tried reading Anne Tyler before and haven't been able to get into her books. The only one I've read before was Vinegar Girl, which is a retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Like this book, I think she is a beautiful writer, just look at the sentence from page 56.
That said, this book was kinda boring. I didn't really like the characters, the plot was kind of far fetched and just didn't make sense. I liked the first part of the book, the look at Willa's life in these three jumps in time until we get to the present and Willa's trip to Baltimore to look after her son's ex-girlfriend's daughter.
I recently learned that my town's library (not part of the county system I work for) has a book club. So I decided to check out the first meeting. I've tried reading Anne Tyler before and haven't been able to get into her books. The only one I've read before was Vinegar Girl, which is a retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Like this book, I think she is a beautiful writer, just look at the sentence from page 56.
That said, this book was kinda boring. I didn't really like the characters, the plot was kind of far fetched and just didn't make sense. I liked the first part of the book, the look at Willa's life in these three jumps in time until we get to the present and Willa's trip to Baltimore to look after her son's ex-girlfriend's daughter.
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