Crooked Little Heart
£6.99
One of the best books I ve read in a long time - I ll admit that when I picked this book up, I didn t have very high hopes for it. It take long, however, until I was completely engrossed. I was moved to tears many times during the book and I have recommeded it to all of my friends.
Pretty good book... - I found the myself wanting to shake each one of the characters at different points while reading this book. I think it was well written and the characters were developed enough for me to alternately sympathize with and want to yell at each one of them. I was a little disappointed in the ending. I wanted to know a few more things, such as: Where was Luther? He turned out to be a helpful with Rosie s insecurities about winning, then he was gone. Did Elizabeth ever get a grip?Not a lot of resolution but a good book nonetheless.
totally kewl! - This book was just totally kewl! I couldn t believe. It just seemed to draw me into the book. Rosie is a very interesting character. A little bit of everything happens in her life. I loved the book and can t wait to read more.
Would have made a great short story. - I realize that due to certain anatomical features I do not belong to the 51% of the population that is this book s target audience, however, my equal love of wemon s tennis and coming-of-age narratives drew me in. And I must say that for the most part I truly loved the parts that dealt with Rosie. It reminded me at times of the short-lived ABC series, My So-Called Life, which also sometimes captured the sensibilty of teen-age life with impressive immediacy. Unfortunately the book is cluttered with several less interesing characters. The worst of these being Elizabeth and Rae, the first of which I found unbelievable and the second alternately pretentious and trite. Ms. Lamott would have been better served to pare this novel down to a tenth of its current length where it might have made a luminous short story with Rosie as its sole focus and all these other peripheral characters either eliminated altogether or marginalized to where they no longer bore or irritate. As it stands the menace of Luther is so diluted that by the time we reach the climactic scene between him and Rosie we feel cheated. A problem that would not occur in short story where the reader doesn t have so much time to predict what will happen next. But, then again, maybe I am just not a member of the target audience.
Goid Bless Rae, Rosie, and the whole wonderful menagerie. - I re-read this book recently and was pleased to find that I wasn t wrong about it the first time: it s wonderful, just as satisfying as any of the others, although I am partial to each new book as it arrives, like a gorgeous newborn. I didn t read Crooked Little Heart, I absorbed it. I tend to do that with Lamott s books, to immerse myself in their pages like a hot bath with extra bubbles. Maybe its an indulgence I can afford, which makes it unique among my usual retail therapy as she would say. Rae and Lank OF COURSE are going to end up together, and Rosie is going to become something interesting. I just know it. I am dying to know more about Rae, actually. Will James ever learn to dress? Will any of us? Keep it up, Anne.