Lake Shore Limited
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Registering to release at the Queenstown Bookcrossing Unconvention
Currently reading. Review to come.
Currently reading. Review to come.
Journal Entry 2 by lakelady2282 at Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, October 20, 2013
Sue Miller is a fascinating writer. Her novel The World Below is one of my all time favourite books and While I Was Gone has also stayed with me for a completely different reason - the unexpected murder at the heart of the novel. With The Lake Shore Limited - for me as a reader anyway - she has changed tack again.
This book is quieter and very subtle. I love the locations of Boston and Vermont. I really felt that I got a sense of the playwright Billy's life living in the exclusive suburb of Union Park - her big dog, the fact that people visiting her often get a parking ticket, even how the cold and snow affects her life.
Billy really is at the centre of this novel - her life and the play she writes that is inspired by her experience of 9/11.
The novel's construction is quite different. The book is told in four points of view: Leslie an older woman whose brother Gus died in 9/11, Gus's girlfriend Billy, a male friend of Leslie's Sam (who I think was a very interesting male character) and Rafe the actor who appears in the play. The four points of view is not original of course but the fact that we only get two rounds with each character is, I think. The second round with each of the characters is shorter but as the book concludes this is where the author's skill and the experience come into play. It is where you really come to understand what a fine writer Miller is.
This book is quieter and very subtle. I love the locations of Boston and Vermont. I really felt that I got a sense of the playwright Billy's life living in the exclusive suburb of Union Park - her big dog, the fact that people visiting her often get a parking ticket, even how the cold and snow affects her life.
Billy really is at the centre of this novel - her life and the play she writes that is inspired by her experience of 9/11.
The novel's construction is quite different. The book is told in four points of view: Leslie an older woman whose brother Gus died in 9/11, Gus's girlfriend Billy, a male friend of Leslie's Sam (who I think was a very interesting male character) and Rafe the actor who appears in the play. The four points of view is not original of course but the fact that we only get two rounds with each character is, I think. The second round with each of the characters is shorter but as the book concludes this is where the author's skill and the experience come into play. It is where you really come to understand what a fine writer Miller is.
Journal Entry 3 by lakelady2282 at -- Wild Released somewhere in Queenstown in Queenstown, Otago New Zealand on Sunday, October 20, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (10/20/2013 UTC) at -- Wild Released somewhere in Queenstown in Queenstown, Otago New Zealand
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
At the Gondola restaurant this evening.
Great to meet you lakelady and thank-you for the book, looks and sounds very interesting, I will get to read it eventually, TBR pile is a little daunting at the moment and I have a few more, caught in Queenstown, to add to it, pressure pressure.
I enjoyed this story very much. I particularly enjoyed the way inwhich Sue Miller wove the main characters lives by shifting the first person narrative between them, gradually revealing painful emotional responses to the tragedy of 9/11.
Within this story Sue has managed to convey an exploration of love and loss that is both understated yet emotionally charged.
Recommended reading. Many thanks for handing it to me lakelady2282.
Within this story Sue has managed to convey an exploration of love and loss that is both understated yet emotionally charged.
Recommended reading. Many thanks for handing it to me lakelady2282.
Journal Entry 6 by marmee463 at 2014 Melbourne Convention in -- Controlled Release, Victoria Australia on Thursday, April 3, 2014
Released 10 yrs ago (4/4/2014 UTC) at 2014 Melbourne Convention in -- Controlled Release, Victoria Australia
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Plan to release this somewhere/sometime during the Convention.
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This does sound interesting. If I win Tattslotto I will take it to Oxford.