Read-a-thon Check-in #6
Posted by: LizzieTitle of book(s) read this hour: The Mermaid Chair, Emotionally Weird
Number of books read since you started: Uno! (plus the one I read to Corey)
Pages read: 22
Running total of pages read since you started: 117
Amount of time spent reading: 20 min
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 2 hr 50 min
Mini-challenge this hour: I don’ t know!
Prize you’ve won: Big Box o’ Books!
I didn’t stay up really late like I wanted to, but I did finish The Mermaid Chair. A couple people have asked me to let them know how I liked it. It was eh, for me. Usually, if I don’t like a book, I’ll just put it down. What kept me reading was that I wanted to know what happened to the father. Of course, that mystery wasn’t going to be revealed until the end, so I had to plow through a lot of mid-life crisis drivel and wallowing to get there. I really think that if Kidd had spent more time focusing on some other aspects of the story, I would have been more interested in it altogether. (Bear with me: I’m not a good reviewer)
SPOILER WARNING!
I wanted her to go back to her husband and I was glad she did. I just think that her spending a year sleeping with a monk and swimming in the marshes was really selfish. Yeah, yeah, she needed to “find herself,” etc. There was just a lot of building up of the monk character for them not to end up together, you know? I would have been more interested in her relationship with her actual husband or maybe her mother’s relationships with her husband and friends.
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For the next couple hours, I’ll be in church, but I’m planning to read on the way there and back. I’ll check in when we get home from lunch and shopping!
Thanks, Dewey, for a great time!
Tags: read-a-thon
June 29th, 2008 at 8:10 am
I’ll probably skip this one then: thanks for letting me know! Congrats on all your achievements, and have fun at work.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:24 am
This has never caught my interest. Thx for your review. I’m interested abt the Emotionally Weird book, too. so I’ll be back!
June 29th, 2008 at 8:47 am
You’re not the first to be disappointed with The Mermaid Chair. It’s too bad, I really enjoyed The Secret Life of Bees.
I’m glad you had a good time with the Read-a-thon!
June 29th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Congrats!! I hope you had a ton of fun!!
July 15th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
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