A few weeks ago I read Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear; I thought I got this book recommendation off Beverly Connor's website (Summer of Connor, why not, right?), but I can't find it on her site now...so, could have been Woman off the Street Recommendation. (hearing a lot about The Omnivore's Dilemma from various, unconnected people; things like that make me want to wait and read the book 20 years from now when everyone's forgotten about it, stupid, huh?)So: Maisie Dobbs: I loved it at first - it started out both funny and serious. I do like the title character, but it got a little bogged down for me in the flashback (this was one of those books where I kept waiting for the return to the present and I kept waiting and I kept waiting). When Winspear did return back to the novel's present time (Post WWI, England); it just wasn't as good as it seemed in the beginning. I wanted more humor, more drama!
Even though I recommended this book to Husband and to my mother, I probably wouldn't recommend this to anyone else. It just wasn't one thing or the other very successfully - not a successful Historical Fiction or Mystery or Drama/Romance....for me, that is.
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Listened to this one on my mp3 player; the ol' brit speak carried me through the romance bits of the book, of which there was an abundance of, and left me longing for more of the ol' Billy Beale, a nice comic sidekick.
2 1/2 stars. June 2008.
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