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It looks like I'm in the minority here, but I really did not enjoy this book. I couldn't sympathize with any of the characters. I thought Macon was whiny and indecisive. I couldn't be compelled to care about what he wanted, mostly because it was never made clear to me exactly what that was. He just

Accidental tourists are actually pretty annoying! (These are those pesky travelers who refuse to give up all their customs, their comforts; refuse to get lost a little in the foreignness, to LIVE.) And this book isn't. A success then! (considering the subject matter.) Yeah, the protagonist is a huge Leggi tutto

Second-time read, revised rating from 4 stars to 5 This is a second-time read for me. The first time was a couple of decades ago, after I had read Tyler’s Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant – which I also coincidentally reread earlier this year and still consider her masterpiece. I’ve now read 12 Tyle Leggi tutto

“Was there any way he could learn to do things differently?” This is a novel I have had to think about for a while before I knew what I needed to say about it. I’m not sure I still do, weeks later. The plot is that Macon Leary (an author of guidebooks) is asked by his wife for a divorce in the text’s Leggi tutto

I love Anne Tyler. Tyler's imagination and observational skills are astounding. This novel mirrors life lately for so many of us. The prevailing "wait and see" mentality is a bit unsettling. But hark! Tempus fugit: tik tok, tik tok...! Macon tries to rigidly plan and control his life - he and his sib Leggi tutto