Book Review #1

One of the good things about relocating to the near North (rather than the far North) is that I am not the only person whose spouse has brought them here. Soon after we arrived I was able to get involved in a book club with other spouses who have been relocated. Most of the time we end up talking about things more related to our husbands and their work than we do the book we pick, but we keep reading anyway. :)

I love books. I love to read. I love to write, and part of the reason for this blog is to get me back into writing, sort of like a daily exercise. While I enjoy the book club I also feel the need to talk about books a little more, so I'm going to do book reviews up here every once in a while. Sometimes I'll talk about the books chosen by my book club, sometimes maybe not. If you ever have a suggestion for a good read, please let me know!

This past month we read The Postmistress by Sarah Blake; as seen here!

The story follows a few American characters through the early part of WWII, before the US officially joined the war. The main characters include a postmistress, (big surprise) a doctor, and a radio news announcer. The first few pages are set in the closer past at a dinner party, then in chapter one it moves to 1941. At the dinner party a woman gets annoyed by how people are talking about WWII, so starts to tell her own story...

Never has a book taken me so long to read. The first half took me 2 months! Of course, I read about 8 other books in that time. The last half I read in a morning. I told myself I wasn't allowed to read anything else until I finished as the book club meeting was only days away! Now, it could be that I didn't enjoy this book because it's not like books I usually choose to read. But I don't really think so. I have never read such an apathetic view of WWII! I don't know. Maybe that's how the beginning of the war was in the states. But that makes it a little worse. If people could be so apathetic about that...what are we possibly ignoring now?

But really this book has got to be one of the most uninvolved stories I've read. I do not recommend reading it. If you want to read an account of WWII, stick with Anne Frank. Get involved and care about what happened, rather than ignore the situation with the bulk of the characters in the book.

Hopefully, next time I'll have more positive remarks!!