Commonwealth
Registered by Edwardstreet of Lower Hutt, Wellington Province New Zealand on 1/8/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by Edwardstreet from Lower Hutt, Wellington Province New Zealand on Sunday, January 8, 2017
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Journal Entry 2 by Edwardstreet at —- by hand, post, or courier in Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand on Sunday, January 8, 2017
Released 7 yrs ago (1/9/2017 UTC) at —- by hand, post, or courier in Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand
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I see this is on a wishlist tag particpant's list - will wait until her name pops up
Journal Entry 3 by crimson-tide at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Thanks for the tag, Edwardstreet.
Looks good, I enjoy Ann Patchett's writing.
It is 1964: Bert Cousins, the deputy district attorney, shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited, bottle of gin in hand. As the cops of Los Angeles drink, talk and dance into the June afternoon, he notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When Bert kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, the new baby pressed between them, he sets in motion the joining of two families whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, has dropped out of law school and is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets one of her idols, the famous author Leon Posen, and tells him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story. Franny never dreams that the consequences of this encounter will extend beyond her own life into those of her scattered siblings and parents. Told with equal measures of humour and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a powerful and tender tale of family, betrayal and the far-reaching bonds of love and responsibility. A meditation on inspiration, interpretation and the ownership of stories, it is Ann Patchett's most astonishing work to date.
I wasn’t sure where this was going when I first began to read, or even whether I’d enjoy it, but as the book progressed it turned into something quite wonderful. Patchett has so much compassion and interest in every member of these two blended, mixed up families whose members are forever tied together by divorce and remarriage. And her writing is seamless and sublime, always there to marvel at (especially the dialogue), but never interfering.
Now reserved for a wish list tag.
Journal Entry 5 by crimson-tide at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Off on a trip to Victoria as a wishlist tag. Enjoy!
Wow, this book has done a couple of huge hops in the Southern Hemisphere. Thanks the the tag crimson-tide.
I read this last month and forgot to journal it.
An interesting story of step siblings who finally tell the story of one of the children dying during a long ago unsupervised summer holiday. By the writing of the novel Commonwealth and the subsequent movie, secrets from the past were finally faced and interpreted.
I liked the way the story was told from the different perspectives and how differently the past was viewed by each of the family members.
An interesting story of step siblings who finally tell the story of one of the children dying during a long ago unsupervised summer holiday. By the writing of the novel Commonwealth and the subsequent movie, secrets from the past were finally faced and interpreted.
I liked the way the story was told from the different perspectives and how differently the past was viewed by each of the family members.
Journal Entry 8 by meganh at Daisy's Little Library in Reservoir, Victoria Australia on Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (8/18/2021 UTC) at Daisy's Little Library in Reservoir, Victoria Australia
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