by Bethers » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:41 am
I'm not answering the question LOL - but just going to say a bit about my feelings on this book.
When I started reading it, I though, uhoh, I'm not gonna like this. I usually have problems when the author rights in a dialect - as often I don't think they follow it, or use it well, or, most often, it just doesn't work for me. That said, omg, I couldn't have been more wrong in this case. Robert Morgan used the dialect perfectly. I could hear these people just as they should speak. I have all of them in my heads, sounds and images, from the way he wrote this book.
I also believe he used some imagery - as when he talked about the worms coming from her dying brother. As Sunseeker stated, I had a little trouble with that one - then I decided that he was using some sort of imagery there - although I'm not sure. I took it almost as if he was being cleansed - as possibly the demons left his body? But again, I put my own thoughts there because I wasn't sure where/how that was meant.
Overall, I loved this book and am so glad it was selected. It made me really think about the difference between not that many years ago and today - and the resiliency of people both past and present - and the strength of women throughout the ages. It was women who kept the families together through thick and thin during those times. And this was another instance of that - shown through one marriage that really wasn't that atypical of the times.
Beth
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
"He who treasures the small things in life has found the path to true happiness"