The Stone Diaries
4 journalers for this copy...
Further copy of a book I've already read.
Journal Entry 2 by Tanamo at Hinckley, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Saturday, September 12, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (9/12/2015 UTC) at Hinckley, Leicestershire United Kingdom
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
This is going in the Authors beginning with C bookring.
Journal Entry 3 by Edwardstreet at Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand on Monday, September 21, 2015
An C author bookring, I will make my decision over the weekend whether to keep or post
Thank you
Thank you
Journal Entry 4 by Edwardstreet at —- by hand, post, or courier in Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand on Saturday, September 26, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (9/27/2015 UTC) at —- by hand, post, or courier in Wellington City, Wellington Province New Zealand
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Received as part of the C Author bookring and thoroughly enjoyed.
This deserves to travel further so off to the next C ring participant.
I loved the look at a family over a century, it reads as an autobiography but is a novel. I am not surprised this won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful book with me.
Online review says:
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, she observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling misconnections she discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era. A witty and compassionate anatomist of the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her own that place where the domestic collides with the elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most poignant novel to date.
This deserves to travel further so off to the next C ring participant.
I loved the look at a family over a century, it reads as an autobiography but is a novel. I am not surprised this won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful book with me.
Online review says:
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, she observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling misconnections she discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era. A witty and compassionate anatomist of the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her own that place where the domestic collides with the elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most poignant novel to date.
Journal Entry 5 by catsalive at Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, October 14, 2015
I'll give this a try.
Journal Entry 6 by catsalive at -- Mail, by hand, rings, RABCKs etc, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Monday, November 9, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (11/9/2015 UTC) at -- Mail, by hand, rings, RABCKs etc, Australian Capital Territory Australia
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Had a bit of a browse but decided to let this one go back into the C-author bookring.
Journal Entry 7 by rodespringbal at Roosdaal, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium on Sunday, March 20, 2016
this book is now home with the C bookring