Castelli Book Club
Last month's book
RULES
FOR VISITING.
Jessica Francis Kane
from Tatiana:
Together
again after the summer break to enjoy Margaret’s lovely
lunch and discuss Rules for Visiting.
On a whole, we liked this book but to varying degrees, from hardly at all to very much. At the bottom of the scale was the sense that the story didn’t really go anywhere or say anything of note – not an awful book, certainly, but nothing to brag about. At the top of the scale were those who found passages that affected them, a flow they found enticing and nuggets of insight to be remembered. In the middle were those of us that enjoyed the education in terms of the names of trees, were mildly curious about how the story would end and found the writing to be adequate.
As there is no real ending to this book in the sense that the reader is left intuiting how things might go but without being told in so many words, in order to enjoy it one must simply go with the flow, as if you are hanging out one lazy afternoon talking to a friend who knows a lot about trees and is trying to put her life in order – a conversation that might be a bit boring sometimes but that manages to enrich in some way your own views and knowledge.
On a whole, we liked this book but to varying degrees, from hardly at all to very much. At the bottom of the scale was the sense that the story didn’t really go anywhere or say anything of note – not an awful book, certainly, but nothing to brag about. At the top of the scale were those who found passages that affected them, a flow they found enticing and nuggets of insight to be remembered. In the middle were those of us that enjoyed the education in terms of the names of trees, were mildly curious about how the story would end and found the writing to be adequate.
As there is no real ending to this book in the sense that the reader is left intuiting how things might go but without being told in so many words, in order to enjoy it one must simply go with the flow, as if you are hanging out one lazy afternoon talking to a friend who knows a lot about trees and is trying to put her life in order – a conversation that might be a bit boring sometimes but that manages to enrich in some way your own views and knowledge.