Songs in Ordinary Time

from sainsborough

I read this book a long time ago, but I enjoyed the experience so much I have never forgotten it. It is a long, slow-moving book, but thoroughly absorbing and thick with atmosphere as the tension b...

from readingrat

This book is full of extremely well-developed and believable characters and we get to follow each and every one of them through a summer of turmoil. The plot flows along at the lazy pace of languid...

from amandacb

I actually really enjoyed this book, especially the character of the mother. Her character was so sketched out that I felt I knew her; and honestly, I probably know some who are like her. It certai...

from drpeff

very long. Similar to middlemarch since covered so many lives in a small town. Hard to tell if any character was the focus. Straightforward prose. The whole story revolved around the decomposing bo...

from LTFL_JMLS

Good enough for me to finish it, but in the end nothing was really resolved. Kind of depressing overall.