Two Popular & One Classic Woman's Literature Picks

★ ★ ★ ★

I really, really liked this.... but not so much the end of his life..... It didn't make sense.

But other than that, I'm glad that I finally read it.... Thanks to whomever it was who wrote the last review.

I kept avoiding this because of the other people (in a particular group) who read it & "loved" it.... I found that I normally hated almost everything they read....

It really is rather bittersweet, non-soppy, and a decent love story! From Amazon: "Audrey Niffenegger's dazzling debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful, strong-minded art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one.

Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future.

His disappearances are spontaneous and unpredictable, and lend a spectacular urgency to Clare and Henry's unconventional love story.

★ ★ ★

A love story, not of just a boy & a girl, but of a girl & her foster mother, a sister for a sister, a florist for a homeless girl......

How they meet, their secrets, their trades, how they meet, how they live, how they love, and how the communicate as translated through the Language of Flowers.....

From Amazon: "The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude.

After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.

Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go, Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them.

But an unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger has her questioning what’s been missing in her life. And when she’s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it’s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness.

★

This I remember (when I was much younger) was a widely acclaimed movie & book... So when I read a recent review here (Goodreads), I figured that there was no reason for me to not read it.....

I wanted to like this book, but I didn't:

The way it was written jumping around from person to person, forward, back, & forward again.... made for a very confusing story line.

Miss Jean Brodie was stilted, pretentious & boring.

The students were as boring & not very likable....