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* Read ! Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen ´ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Miller's Valley she fell in love, etc and the tone was the same Chris I found this book to be extremely slow reading. The character narrating the story, Mimi, was very monotone. People died, her brother enlisted, she fell in love, etc and the tone was the same. I didn't have one moment of anticipation while reading it. This was read as a book club selection and we all agreed that it was extremely slow. We haven't read any of the author's other books and won't be reading any more. We read the reviews before maki
| Title | : | Miller's Valley |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1471158772 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
She is the author of eight novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Miller’s Valley. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a number one New York Times bestseller. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pu
she fell in love, etc and the tone was the same Chris I found this book to be extremely slow reading. The character narrating the story, Mimi, was very monotone. People died, her brother enlisted, she fell in love, etc and the tone was the same. I didn't have one moment of anticipation while reading it. This was read as a book club selection and we all agreed that it was extremely slow. We haven't read any of the author's other books and won't be reading any more. We read the reviews before making our selection and they were positive and rated 4 stars. We guess it is just not our style of reading. Obviously, some . Storyline not developed. Tiffany Kramer I enjoyed this book right up to the end. I felt that the author got tired of writing so instead of finishing the last 100 pages she just summarized them. I didn't think the way Mimi dealt with the mystery surrounding Ruth was realistic at all. Her excuse that it would hurt her mother and Ruth too much was lame. Fiction is about conflict. Mimi avoided conflict at all costs. If the end of the story had been fully developed I am sure I would have rated this book 4 or 5 stars. I do think Anna Quindlen is a talented author. She just dropped the ball this time.. "Mary's and Donald's adult relationship is a mystery" according to Elisabetta. This book has great character development in the beginning, and there is a lot of interesting information about towns and farms that disappear through land management. It is enjoyable to read and moves along, keeping the reader engaged. My only disappointment is that after a long development of the character of Donald in Mary Margaret's childhood, when she finally meets him later in life and actually marries him, there is almost no expression of how Mary feels and what happens as they re-unite. This lack of development compared to the depth of development earli
Here, in this novel, where so much is about what vanishes, there is also a deep beating heart, of what also stays' The New York Times 'Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen has won millions of admirers for her wonderful storytelling and her ability to make sense out of life in modern times. But Quindlen also allows her characters mystery - and some of what's unknown stays unknown, which burnishes her story with a kind of haunting grace and truthfulness. 'What does home really mean? Is it the people around you who make a place familiar and loved, or is it the tie to land that's been in your family for generations? Anna Quindlen's mesmerizing new novel investigates both Quindlen makes her characters so richly alive, so believable, that it's impossible not to feel
the novel is overwhelmingly moving ' New York Times. In the vein of Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread and Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton, Miller's Valley is an emotionally powerful story about a family you will never forget. For generations the Millers have lived in Miller Valley, a small American town on the verge of enormous change. As Mimi eavesdrops on her parents and quietly observes the people around her, she discovers more and more about the toxicity of family secrets, the dangers of gossip, the flaws of marriage, the inequalities of friendship, the risks of passion, loyalty and love. Home, as Mimi begins to realise, can be a place where it's just as easy to feel lost as it is to feel contented. Mimi Miller describes her life, from the 1960s to the present, with intimacy and honesty, as though revealing it to the best friend she never had. A masterly study of family, memory and loss, Miller's Valley reminds us that the place where you grew up can disappear, and the people in it too, but all will live on in your heart forever. 'Mesmerizing Quindlen makes her characters so richly alive, so believable, that it's impossible not to feel every doubt a
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