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Happy Reading!
BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
6 Robert Frost Poems (3 Group Assigned & You Pick 3)
War as I Knew It by George S. Patton Jr.
Secret Lives of First Ladies by Cormac O'Brian
4 comments:
Maggie has a tendency to "gloss things over" as Serena accuses her of doing on page 58, yet she also holds on to things for years and never lets them go. And while she seems to see the best in everyone, there are a few people she automatically imagines the worst in. And it seems to me (??) to be the people who she might feel to be her "direct competition." The women who make her feel or appear inadequate. First it's the "pretender Grandma" (I love that phrase!) who is Fiona's mom, Maggie always paints her in a terrible light. And then "Mrs. Perfect" (again, love that moniker) the name Maggie gives to the PTA mom that daugher Daisy prefers over her own mom. Seems Maggie's not as magnanimous as she appears at first glance???
(P103, G2)
The letter that Maggie writes to Ira's father...I just don't get it. I mean, I realize Maggie has a vivid imagination, but did she really BELIEVE what she was writing? Had she worked herself up to that point of actually believing what she was saying?? "The most wonderful person I've ever met"??? And then how she goes on..."Or, seeing how she had been one of the few people who had properly valued his son..." Lordy.
I'm sure this means something, that the Moran family often doesn't recognize Leroy...that Jesse thinks she should look a certain way, and that Maggie has to ask her who she is before Maggie will let go the idea that Leroy is the neighbor child. Hmm...
(P234)
Maggie talks about her ability to "see the best in things," and "her knack for accepting, for adapting." Is that really what it is? She doesn't seem to accept things or people. She goes about seeing what she wants to see and then striving to change everything else to fit the image she's chosen to see. It seems more like delusion or denial to me. ???
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