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I finished reading Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons a week ago, but I found myself thinking about it a lot, especially during the recent holidays. Tyler’s specialty is family and marriage, and while sitting down to countless meals, chatting with parents, siblings, in-laws, nieces, nephews, extended rel Leggi tutto

“Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures, even; didn’t she know that?” (4.5 stars) Anne Tyler has a way of writing and collecting the simple elements of life that thrills me. While reading this book I was reminded of emotions and feelings from moments in my life that I had forgotten I Leggi tutto

Only two stars for this tedious slice of life which by the way if this really is how life is lived you can shove it where the sun don’t shine. I think most of us would pay handsomely not to have to live these lives. And one of my stars is just for the scene where the middle aged couple are doing the Leggi tutto

We can essentially classify Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners into three categories: the epic ("Age of Innocence," "Gone with the Wind," "Grapes of Wrath," "Confederacy of Dunces," "Lonesome Dove," "Amazing Adventures with Kavalier and Clay," "Middlesex"), the deeply personal ("Rabbit Is Rich," "Ra Leggi tutto