https://youtu.be/FQq8dO4UiHM?si=rK9UB75dqIkaHZd5
Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong
https://youtu.be/FQq8dO4UiHM?si=rK9UB75dqIkaHZd5
Introduction
Mystery guest
Week in Review
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong
Catch up review from mid year 5/5
I‘m reviewing these 2 together because they are 2 parts of a whole. The tagged book follows the early career of a young man from a small town who achieves literary success but struggles in society. In the sequel (tagged in comments) he struggles to replicate that success while travelling through Europe with his mistress. In both books he is oblivious to making a lot of people unhappy.
Read for #WhartonBuddyRead
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Going to stick with a fairly loosy goosy #Bookspin list for 2025. Here‘s January.
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It caught him back to the dreadful moment in the lodge when, raising himself up from Rainer‘s side, he had looked at his hands and seen that they were red…
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At that, as if it had been the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel.
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Not sure exactly what Wharton was doing here as her artist wanders through all sorts of writing and social circumstances, and his one time muse, now lover, gets neglected, left behind, forgotten. I waited for her seek independence, but Wharton wasn‘t writing for me. I merely got a wink. Still, it‘s pleasant reading. #whartonbuddyread @Lcsmcat
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Searching for analysis of our novel, this poem popped up. If you can‘t read it here it‘s available online here https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50464/give-all-to-love
Wow. Once again Wharton expects us to be well read, as well as well travelled, and it all makes so much more sense. I still don‘t like V and think Halo deserves better, but we all make stupid choices sometimes. 😂 #whartonbuddyread
Wow. This was a brutal section for me. Vance has sacrificed any sympathy I ever had for him. He‘s not young and impulsive anymore. He‘s selfish and cruel. I wish Halo had better options, but she needs to be shed of V.! Thoughts about either V or H‘s behavior? #whartonbuddyread