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Cargando... Traveling Light (edición 2013)por Andrea Thalasinos (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Strange book. Interesting - kept me involved enough to not want to shut off the light and go to sleep, but overall a weird story: Woman married to a hoarder, doesn't know that until she has her furniture sent to his house when they were about to be married. After a few nights of wedded bliss, he refuses to share his bed with her - no room. So she sleeps on the couch, hating it. He's in academia, she's with a nonprofit agency. Circumstances get her a dog, she knows he would not allow it so she takes off, calls her boss & sez she's taking leave. Donates $1000 to the animal shelter, buys a new - brand new - car, writes a check to pay for it, and leaves with the dog & clothes on her back. Stops in Northern Wis, falls into a job with a wildlife rescue, stays there 8 weeks. Hubby calls, she is sweet to him. He sez come back, I fixed it all. She does. He has everything perfect - hired decorators & it's all cleaned out and perfect. She snoops and learns he has filled his other house with all the junk and has been spending time there. She leaves him, goes back to wildlife place. The End. ( ) I would give this 6 stars if I could, I really loved this book. This is a story of a woman who has reached a point of no return; her marriage and her career are both floundering, and she takes actions that seem at first totally irrational, but turn out to be the best intuitive decisions of her life. She begins a journey, and along the way she learns to love a dog, an eagle, an owl, and other assorted animals and humans. This is beautifully written, with characters that are complex and interesting. And the story is absorbing. The storyline is pretty straightforward: a woman gets a homeless dog she doesn't want, leaves her hoarder husband, ends up working at a raptor/wildlife rehabilitation center. Sounds like a great basis for a story, lots of potential. Lots of potential it didn't fulfill, sadly. Initially, the writing failed to draw me in, too much explaining and telling, and didn't bring out either sympathy or empathy from me. There were too many metaphors for my taste. I absolutely agree that puppy mills are horrid places run by greedy, heartless (insert favorite bad word here). I also think that wolves should be allowed to be wolves and dogs should allowed to be dogs, and having wolf-hybrids as pets is a terrible idea. Still, the story felt too preachy about animal rights. I don't mind the stand, in fact I agree with it, but I don't like preachiness. I wondered, with all the posturing about the awful things people do to animals, there was nary a word about the fur industry. The protagonist's mother worked for decades in the industry as a seamstress, but there was not a single mention of the brutality of that business. Hey, if you're going to preach to me, at least be consistent. The writing felt to me like it bordered on amateurish. It just didn't flow well, not horrible, but there was nothing that made me especially appreciate the writing or turns of phrase. Given all of that, I could have enjoyed the story if not for the protagonist. She seemed to revel in being a victim. Fairly late in the book, she thought “It felt good to be told what to do.” Come on, take some responsibility for your own life. Grow up. I would have liked to know more about Roger and his hoarding, but there was no insight there. The characters lacked depth. This potentially great story just devolved into another predictable romance. I was given a copy of the book for review. Loved this book about an academic who is ashamed of her marriage. There's a lot of stuff going on in this book, coming of age when you're 50, hoarding, dogs, raptor rescue, family...I could go on and on. The best thing you can do is just get this book and read it for yourself. I've already gone on Amazon and ordered her first book, An Echo Through The Snow! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
When college teacher Paula Makaikis finds herself with a new dog, a brand-new Ford Escape, and an eight-week leave of absence, she winds up at a wildlife rehabilitation center in northern Minnesota, and her life is changed forever. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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