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“Tyler's writing is brilliant. A great story touching the mundane and life itself, love, and some stereotyped characteres. A lot of feelings and emotions, a book I had to finish and which I will not easily forget.
Alicia wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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“Beautifully and quirkily written, with a wonderful sense of the mundane reality of live and love. But, ultimately, it's that very mundaneness that contributes to a depressing tediousness.”
K.M. Weiland wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Husband & wife relationship”
Diane B wrote this review Sunday, October 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Wonderful characters. I don't know how Anne comes up with all the little plot intricacies. Such feelings and emotions, they bring the reader right in. So very humorous.”
Cheryl G wrote this review Monday, September 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Liked it.....sad, funny, thoughtful....vintage Anne Tyler.”
Maureen G wrote this review Thursday, September 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This novel won a Pulitzer Prize. It's hard to believe as the plot is the most unexciting one I've ever come across. Reading it is just like being stuck in a car with a middle aged couple, the wife the most annoying, meddling character and the husband, long suffering and taciturn. The kids are terribly sterotypical 'white trash' and nothing gets resolved, but maybe that's the point of novels like these- it screams 'this is middle america'. It's not quaint, at times its downright scary but Tyler's writing has a brilliance to it and its a scenario that will stick in your mind after you've finished reading it.”
Selina C wrote this review Friday, August 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“This is so good. In one part, I laughed out loud.”
Linda R wrote this review Sunday, August 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I like Anne Tyler, just not this book.”
Jim S wrote this review Sunday, July 19 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I really liked this book and most all of her books. They are great at creating a feeling and atmosphere but I always finished them feeling depressed and hopeless in life s maybe too good at creating a feeling of depression and hopelessness”
Tara D wrote this review Monday, May 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Breathing Lessons begins with Maggie and Ira Moran leaving their home in Baltimore to go to a funeral a few hour’s drive away. Maggie’s childhood friend Serena has lost her husband to cancer. They drive to the funeral, and on their way back they visit their daughter-in-law, Fiona, whose marriage to their son fell apart. The whole story takes place in a day, but there are several flashbacks to the time when they first meet, to the early years of their marriage, and to the time of the dissolution of their son’s marriage.
Wendy B wrote this review Friday, May 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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