Loving Frank: A Novel | 
11-6-22: Spent the day at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. Most of the buildings on campus were created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was beautiful. This was the Roux library. The whole place was fascinating. 📖📚☀️
This is a book club choice, the subject of which I have no previous knowledge of.
Unfortunately the only edition in the library is large print so it's a whopper!
pickAfter putting this off for the whole of the year I can finally join in all the love and say, what a book! Detailing the scandalous relationship between architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client Mamah Borthwick Cheney, we come to know a woman making decisions and leading a life well ahead of her time in the early 1900s. I‘m surprised I don‘t know more about her, so down the🐰 🕳 I go!
panThis is possibly the worst book I‘ve ever read. The boring plot and excessive wordiness are as pretentious and unlikable as the characters.
pickI really enjoyed this book. This was based on real people,and events surrounding the life of Frank Loyd Wright .This was a historical fiction, but you really got the feel of what life was like in the early nineteen hundreds for his nonconventional life that he led with his lover Mamah Borthwick Cheney. You were also able to see his genius as an architect and how nature was the force behind his work!
pickHistorical fiction about Frank Lloyd Wright and his affair with a married woman who became involved with him after she and her husband had a house designed by him. This is a great story, women need to be free like Mamah decides she would be after she leaves with Frank. Just a great insight into how FLW thought and worked with his artistic behaviors.
pickIn-depth imagining of the relationship of Wright with Mamah. A slow read but I found Mamah‘s feminism, activism, and choices kept me reading. Much more about feminism than I expected. I didn‘t dislike her and understood the conflict she felt. Wright found his intellectual match and someone willing to challenge him. He was a narcissist, with many failings, but still a genius. A friend tipped me to the ending but it was still a shock.
As the newspapermen descend on frank lloyd Wright and mamah‘s home in Wisconsin their lives are full of #misery. Wright is in debt and they are both full of guilt for having left their children. #octoberxfiles #currentread
Loving Frank Lloyd Wright is not easy. In a way, it‘s almost toxic - he does not treat any of his love interests well, yet his actions claim to do so. Horan‘s fictional account of Wright and his mistress made me see Wright in a different way. It was so good, but yet so heartbreaking, one of those books that I wanted to scream to the women, “Run!”
Definite #CrucifyMyHeart moments in this one. #SeptemberDanes
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The clandestine affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney was full of #LipstickLies 💋
It‘s another one sat on my #mountTBR
I read five books this month, four of which were library books. I'm 85% done with one more on my kindle, which I will try to finish tonight.
#augustisatrip #readingresolutions
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panHated this book. Hated Mamah and Frank. What a-holes. You‘d think the author would have tried to give them some redeeming qualities.. but nope! Just awful.
#13books13weeks complete - this is great because I hated a lot of them so now I can donate them!
#24b4monday readathon is going okay, so far. I don‘t think I‘ll make 24, but maybe 18?
I got an hour in this morning finishing Nevertheless. Going to try to knock Loving Frank out next for #24b4monday readathon and to finish my #13books13weeks stack
Loving Frank is the only book I have left to complete both #13books13weeks and my official August #TBR (I do want to try to get to one more book from #makemereadit in August as well.
pickBook club is tomorrow night and I finished the book last night. The story of Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress Mamah Borthwick Cheney was interesting but both of them were very selfish and unlikable.
My August TBR. I have a bunch of books on my kindle that I'd like to get to this month, but I think August is going to be a mood reading month.
#AugustIsATrip #readingresolutions
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Frank Lloyd Wright always comes to mind immediately when I think of a #badboyforlove 💔 And this amazing book!
#marchintooz
Visited the Darwin Martin House yesterday. It‘s beautiful! Love Frank‘s designs but not him as a person after reading this book. #read
This prompt brings Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick immediately to mind. The way they abandoned not only their spouses but also their children in order to run off together was selfish....and didn't end well 😳
#yougiveloveabadname
#rocktober
I bailed on this book but I'm not going to review it as such. I'll just blurb about my mistake instead. Picking up a historical fiction when what I really want is a biography or memoir is not fair to the author and I must stop doing it. Meanwhile, I contemplate what place historical fiction has in my TBR. :::sigh:::
Scarlett and Patrick Bateman were already taken, so how about a bit of Frank Lloyd Wright? I've devoured a few books about him and I find his life fascinating but . . . #youresovain FLW. #junetunz
I know they are based off real people, but I thought the main characters in this telling of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney's love affair to be very unlikable characters. #unlikablecharacters #aprilbookshowers
pickHoly cow!! Why did no one warn me about this ending!? I finished the book late last night with my heart beating out of my chest and laid in bed wide awake for the next 2 hours 😂
Aside from the ending, I thought Loving Frank was fairly indirect and long-winded. Frank & Mamah's self-indulgent behavior somewhat impacted my ability to appreciate their love story. But of course, hateable characters are fun sometimes!
I went to the library by myself (awesome). I walked briskly & obediently past the donated books...then I doubled back. Well, the rest is history. Here is my #bookhaul that I did not *technically* buy. I just happened to make a generous donation to the Friends of the Library on the same day that I took these books home... 😬 Anything good here? I'm very intrigued by some I hadn't heard of!
Remember when Carrie cheated on Big with Aiden while he was married to Natasha and all Carrie could think about was Aiden finding out and breaking up with her without once considering Natasha? This book is told from the vantage point of those having an affair with zero regard for their spouses. I actually thought the writing itself was quite good but at page 134 I couldn't take another minute of these characters justifying their affair #DNF
On sale at BookBub today. Sounds intriguing. Shall I bite?
so-soI'm conflicted. I vaguely knew the history of this story and lacked a lot of the details.
Overall, the character's aren't particularly likeable and I wasn't surprised by it. The love story and their affair didn't bother me as much as it did some reviewers but I'm reading this over 100 years after it took place and I can't judge them for finding love with one another.
pickStory on the scandalous love affair of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright. Nancy Horan's well researched book is told from Mamah's point of view and provokes deep thought on the subject of women's roles and the responsibilities of a mother versus the need to live an "authentic" life.
pickIn 1909, Mamah Borthwick created a scandal by running away with famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright - both were married to other people.
The interesting subject matter carries this book, a fictionalised account. At times, it felt like the author's research was awkwardly shoehorned into the dialogue (especially Frank's), so it didn't quite ring true.
Had me googling FLW's designs and overall, an enjoyable read.
Note to self: when reading fictionalised biographies, do NOT stop halfway through to google the characters. Sure, you just want to know what they looked like, but you WILL be spoiled. You know this. So stop doing it.
PS this is apparently what Mamah looked like.
pickStill love his architecture. The man, not so much. This picture was taken at the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo NY.
