Of Mice & Maltesers Two- Maria's book

[Maria2007loveshersleep]

Hi everyone, just getting this thread going really so that its available. The book I chose for this year's round is much much closer to my heart than the one I chose last year. So I'm hoping people will enjoy it as much as I've done- I've read it at least 2-3 times already. I would imagine some people would dislike it, of course (for reasons we will, I'm sure, discuss here), but am hopeful that lots of you will like it...

Anyway, happy reading!

wonder if this thread got lost somehow? So just bumping it up...

Hi Maria.

I did enjoy your book - although it was sandwiched between two books i absolutely adored, so i can't be as effusive as i would have been usually!

It was an interesting way of structuring the book and i appreciated the completeness of the ending where all the characters and threads come together. Seeing how people's lives are interwoven felt almost revelatory - in a kind of "look - you are only at the centre of YOUR OWN universe" and a bit like those venn diagrams we used to do in maths at school.

Am wittering now. Must stop
So, i enjoyed it; stayed up far too late to finish it off, so i must have been drawn in deeply, but it isn't one of my all time faves, yet i am glad i read it. Thanks Maria!

Thanks for this book, Maria. When I looked at the cover and read the bumph, I really thought that it wouldn't be my cup of tea, and it's not one that I'd pick up in a shop.

Having said that, I got surprisingly into it once I started. I'm not a fan of American fiction - apart from anything by Jonathan Frantzen or John Irving - but this was much less schmaltzy than I expected.

I got caught up in it all, and forgot the initial premise - the author suffering from writers' block, so I had a to reread the start when I got to the end.

I thought it was nicely written, and I wonder if it was true?

Again, it wasn't one of my all-time favourites, but I'm glad I read it, and I would recommend it to friends.

Thanks.

this book arrived for me today ...... will report back soon

Aristocat, how are you getting on with the book? Will be nice to get some more feedback for it.

well, i have finished it and i liked it ~ it was easy reading IYKWIM

it was quite different and not one of my usual reads (but thats the idea of the club,anyway!)
i thought that it was a well written, charming and funny book. i did get the idea that love is either with you or without and there is no middle ground.

there is a film of the same name with Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, have you seen it?

thanks Maria a nice choice