This wasn’t like, horribly monstrously bad. But it was still not very good. It’s the story of Jessie Sullivan, a married woman in her forties, who goes home to this tiny island after she hears that her mother has had a nervous breakdown. Said nervous breakdown manifests as her mother intentionally cutting off one of her fingers. While back home, Jessie falls in love with a monk from the monastery that’s next door to her mother’s house. Meanwhile, her mother continues to act like a […]
History, Characters, and Emotion in a Perfect Package
“People say love gets fouled by a difference big as ours. I didn’t know for sure whether Miss Sarah’s feelings came from love or guilt. I didn’t know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing.” (54) I’d seen The Invention of Wings (2014) by Sue Monk Kidd on book shelves, and I’d heard some buzz about it. With only a very vague […]
Growing up motherless is hard to do
3. 5 stars Lily Owens grows up isolated, neglected by her father and lonely on a peach farm in Georgia in the 1960s. Her only friend is the woman who acts as her nanny, Rosaleen, a former field hand who’s taken care of her since Lily’s mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was little more than a toddler. When Rosaleen is forced to flee town after accidentally insulting some white men while on her way to registering to vote, Lily insists on coming […]
A Good Book You’ll Want to Borrow
My motivation for reading this book was to get it off my shelf and back on my neighbor’s, who had lent it to me months before. Coupled with the fact that she also brought me a plate of pure sex for Christmas (no one makes better cookies than her), I was beginning to feel like a really lousy neighbor. “But my dog ocassionally tears into your yard, screaming for Kiki the Poodle to come out” I want to scream (let’s ignore the fact that he […]