The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
After reading few pages of this book I got lost.
Every few lines a new character introduced with not much connection to the main plot of the story.
Main plot? The story?
I could not find any of these.
Still I continued reading although without much heart. I read slowly, just few pages at a time and after some time I got into the climate of the book - I still could not figure out who cheated whom and why but I started enjoying the mess around me.
Another positive point was a check of authors biography - James McBride - his father was an Afro-American pastor, his mother - a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Her maiden name - Zylska - raises some sentiment - from my early years I remember a popular Polish singer - Natasha Zylska :)
Anyway - at around 2/3 of the book I started enjoying it, unfortunately last few chapters broke the spell.
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I have also joined a Book club in my town. Recently we have read a story Madame Hemingway by Paula McLain. Everybody liked it.
ReplyDeleteI hope you will like this book club.
DeleteI participated in meetings of few book clubs, some were good - I mean people talking in interesting way, most were average, the current one I do not like at all :(
But it is walking distance from home.