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Summary: "This book really teaches a family how to stay together."
Review: Mrs. Tull is a very strong women that tries to stick with her family no matter what. If I were in her shoes, I would have been gave up!!
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Summary: Family Story
Review: My mom is a big Anne Tyler fan and she gave me this book a long time ago and I finally picked it up. It was good. I just finished it a few minutes ago and I almost feel like I need a little while to contemplate it and figure out what it all means. Tyler makes a statement about family life in this story of the Tull family. Beck Tull leaves his wife and three children when his oldest child is 14, I think, and the story takes us through a large portion of each of their lives, switching off perspectives between each of the children and the mother with each chapter. There's so much to the book that it's hard to sum it up in a short paragraph. It makes me want to read more of Anne Tyler's books.
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Summary: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Review: The book was very hard to get into. As one of the books I had to read over the summer, this book was the worst of all. The disfunctional family really worked my nerves. With the crazy Pearl and no good father the book had so many problems I wouldn't be able to explain them all in this little paragraph. GOOD LUCK if this is a book you had to read over the summer. LIFE'S NOT FAIR TO ADVANCED PLACEMENT STUDENTS!
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Summary: Homesick
Review: The brothers in this novel are so real that I believe I know them.Tyler shows family relationships not as we wish them to be, but as they often are: the brothers' sibling rivalry, and how they feel about each other and the family, a father who could not cope with his own feelings and left, and a mother who takes her feelings out on the children. Rivalrys like this are often found on the pages of the Old Testament. It makes timeless literature. Tyler's characters are drawn are so realistically that the reader feels amazement. This is one of my all time favorite novels.
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Summary: Dinner
Review: The hard truth of life is that we are happy only in the short intervals granted by the fate. Being happy, no matter for how long, does not make life purposeful. Snip: (...)
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Summary: My thoughts...
Review: This book has earned a great deal of praise. I have to say that Anne's use of words greatly impressed me, but I did not really enjoy the story. The charachters did not incite feeling or cause you to like them. If you have time on your hands, it is definatly worth a try.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS THE BEST BOOK THAT I HAVE READ IN A LONG TIME.
Review: THIS BOOK SHOWS THE STRUGGLE OF A SINGLE MOTHER RAISING THREE KIDS. IT IS A WELL WRITTEN BOOK THAT GIVES US, THE READERS AN INSIGHT TO EVERYONE'S LIFE SO WE CAN SEE HOW EACH CHILD FEELS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT HAPPEN THROUGH OUT THE BOOK.
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Summary: A bittersweet story of family...
Review: This is a bittersweet retelling of the history of a family, a family with its own peculiar insecurities and rivalries that is nonetheless bound together by love, even if the family members realize that too late. A quiet, slow-moving book, it is nonetheless an engrossing read filled with real, engaging, multi-faceted characters.
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Summary: The Center of the Family
Review: This is a delicate loving piece of fiction. What is harder in life than to try to understand the perspective of the other people in our family? Anne Tyler gives us an intimate look at each of the family member's thoughts and from this we draw a large picture of a complex set of family relations. Where else does a family join together but the dinner table? It is a spot of joyous reunions and a catalyst for causing severe fractures, but it is a place where every person in the family ultimately returns. By placing this at the center of her tale she is able to jump of on all the character's many stories. This novel makes you reconsider the point of view of people in your family you might have given up on. Your sympathy always goes with Ezra, forever trying to hold the family together. But you also learn to see the perspective of the other members through hearing small poignant details of their lives from Pearl's apple apple apple to the devastating reunion and confrontation with the missing father at the end. Their actions aren't just quirky details, but strong philosophies by which they live and rich points of difference that cause friction in their relations. This is handled with tremendous sympathy and understanding by the author. Anyone who has had strained relations with members of their family will be able to relate to this book and be wildly entertained by its twists and turns.
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Summary: Great literary work
Review: This is an excellent and descriptive book. It is a bit of a sad picture of a dysfunctional family. The father left the family early on and his leaving contributes to the drama which occurs later. It is a good book, though your mood may be changed after reading it.
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