Funny, insightful, and just beautiful writing. " I haven't read any Welty in years and had forgotten how amazing she is. Southern and mysterious, it slowly illustrates the lives and histories in a Southern family through shifting points-of-view.
" Good, but Welty's syntax can often be hard to follow. I like most of her other work much much better. This book was hard for me to get through b/c there was little defined plot, it was a somewhat interesting view of a delta family. " I started reading this b/c I had not read any of Welty's novels, only short stories. " i can't really get into her but i went to her house on our summer road trip in jackson, ms " - Amanda, It wasn't necessarily one of my favorites but it was a pretty interesting read. I read it for an English class an it presents an idea of what life was like way back when people still owned plantations and ladies were expected to act proper and all. " Read something else, anything else that Eudora's written and it's way better. Not much plot, but I can feel myself there. I let myself sink into the language and the characters. " eudora welty makes me wish we'd never moved away from the delta. " Couldn't get all the way through, prefer her short stories I guess. I like the way it looks at family relationships and the way and individual thinks she knows what people are really like. Watch out for complex sentence structure and pronouns without an antecedent.
They didn't have anything really positive to say about it either. Only two people in our book club finished the book. I kept on having to read back to remember characters. There were so many family members that it was very difficult to remember each one. " This was the most hard to follow book I have ever read. There is something about it that is really haunting. the whole book felt like i was taken back in time and witnessed the preparations for this wedding, the love the family had for each other and the truly southern ways. i could feel, hear and smell everything ! at first i had to re-read some of the passages and then decided reading them out loud helped a lot. " for a southern girl this was an amazing book. I loved the narration of Sally Darling on the audio recording. Not very much action, but the conversations back and forth as the family prepares for Dabney Fairchild's wedding is delightful and reminiscent of families everywhere. " This large and clamorous Southern family living on a plantation in the Mississippi Delta in 1923 has conversations that made me smile and even chuckle.
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She should have written poetry, and left prose to those minions who know how to write simple dialog. What she cannot do is craft a story that flows. She captures moments and brings them to life through the written word. " Eudora Welty has without a doubt a gift for words. In any case, I would be interested to read her other work (perhaps just short stories, though!) " - Tara, I believe this was her first novel so maybe that explains it. Maybe I've read too much Southern writing recently, but I felt that I was drowning amid too many characters and too little action. She writes beautifully, but it wasn't enough to hold my attention. This is the first time I've read Eudora Welty, whose photography I love. " I read about 2/3 of this book but had to call it quits.
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