23-10-2014, 10:45
MAG2NYC Wrote:I just finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things and Daniel Abraham's The Widow's House. I liked Gilbert's book a lot, but have a feeling that I might not have liked it as much had I not listened to it as an audio book read by Juliet Stephenson. Abraham's book is the fourth in a series of five and while I binge read the previous three and couldn't wait to read this one, I found it slow and overly didactic compared to the previous books. I'm really hoping he saved the best stuff for the last book because there needs to be an epic ending to this saga!love historical fiction
Now I'm reading Radley Balko's Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces and Ann Patchett's Truth and Beauty.
Music Head, knowing your sensibilities, I think you might actually like Gilbert's book and it's characters. It's set in the 19th century, and the female characters are good Dutch women!
I will check it out
thanks