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Summary: Short stories
Review: This is a small collection of short stories featuring 8 people who travel from Dublin to a small village, each weekend.While they are minimally connected through village life, their lives are very different, some with huge family problems and others who are desperate to keep their Dublin lives separate. All of the stoeies are well presented but are just sketches of what couls be bigger, ongoing stories. I felt as though I was reading a plotting session..one which didn't come to anything. I guess that I'm old-fashioned enough to want a beginning, a middle and an end, and in this book, nothing is resolved, leaving the reader dangling mid story.
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Summary: Great stories ... but
Review: Where is the conclusion? When I got the the four short stories of Dublin short stories, I was like, ok, I'll get back to the Lilac Bus ~~ and never did. It just left me hanging. Maeve Binchy is a great writer ~~ she tells stories like no other writer does but this book did not do her justice at all. The stories in the Lilac Bus seems to be incomplete. There were no conclusion at all. Maybe she intends to leave the endings up to our imaginations ~~ but she barely even started a sketch with some of these characters. And I want to know more. It feels like a tease ~~ come on and read my book but, ... you have to do the rest on your own. This is not my favorite Binchy book ~~ not even close. Since I have read her other books, I know that this is not her typical writing. Don't be discouraged if you read this book ~~ she does have other books that are better. 11-25-03
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