Unabridged Audiobook
Rarely does an audio book cause me to tear up, but this one was so powerful in its ability to connect with the listener that I was very moved. The author depicted the challenges of family and growing older. This is definitely one that I will recommend to others. The narrator did a wonderful job of creating the voices of both the male and female characters.
Great narrator.
Very gentle, quietly amusing, sad, so ordinary and yet so magnificent in its ordinariness. Very short too. Loved it.
This book is low key, and therefore for the most part I planned to give it 3 stars. But Kent Haruf succeeded to really annoy me towards the end of the book, and that by itself is worth his one more star, because that's why we have books, to surprise, and intrigue and make the reader laugh and cry, and sometime really really annoy. I could not stand the narrow mindedness of Addie Moore's son, and together with the lack of courage of some of the characters it created such a tragedy. Family sometimes puts people in impossible situations, that create unimaginable difficulties. How can one choose between beloved people? What right does anybody have on someone else's happiness? And what would anyone else do in such a situation? (easy to say, harder to do in real life). Tough tough, and really annoying, but worth reading.
What a beautiful and powerful book. I was hesitant selecting this title as my November book because it is so short, but I am so happy I did. The story is charming and the author's choice of words and descriptions are wonderfully unique. The narrator does a fantastic job of distinguishing voices but not in a hokey way. I will definitely go out and buy this book in hard copy to experience it that way as well.
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