![]() The part where I’m now furious at the end and not the middle? Gonna have to sort that! Terrific book. ![]() ![]() Anyway, the part where this book has affected me this deeply over this many years, well, that says a lot about the book, the author, and me. Nobody sorts dysfunction better than Tyler, even if she never actually fixes anything. Her work (prior to Ladder of Years) was healing to me in my 20’s as I sorted through the wreckage left from a chaotic childhood and dysfunctional family. I’d like to argue with the book’s end, oh I want to argue!, but the ending is typical Tyler (as I recall all these years later), and typical Tyler is generally a good thing. Here I am 25 years later, first I’ve picked up by Tyler since, back where I left off with an ENTIRELY different perspective. ![]() I was at that time a mother of young children, babies, and the book made me so angry at the main character (and Tyler) that I threw the book against the wall 2/3 through, vowed to never read another word by Tyler, and kept my vow. I have a personal history with this title, having read it in hardcover in 1995. I could make an essay out of a review, a long essay. I wish there were more than 5 stars for performance. This is the first book I’ve listened to narrated by her and I will go through the list of books she has narrated to seek out more. First narration: Elisabeth Rodgers is an outstanding narrator. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |