I'm trying to read this book for the second time. I think I've gotten further this time. I was on page 89 when I put it down to read 4 other books. I'll try to finish it soon and then offer it up as a bookray or ring.

I gave up on this book. I disliked the writing style and the topics/characters. Life is too short for me to try to slog through it. Adios!

I saw this on bibliocrates's wish list, so I'm sending it to her with a bookring book. Enjoy and Happy Holidays!

This book was supposed to be going to bibliocrates, but it took a little side trip to TN on it's way. Personally, I think it just wanted to visit Graceland and made a quick detour. : )
I'll be sending it back on its journey to its intended destination later in the week.

RELEASE NOTES:

Mailing off to bibliocrates today after it's visit in TN.

Just to specify...this is a RABCK from mellonhead. It just got a little side tracked during all the holiday craziness.

I caught it, book arrived safely here in Trinity, Alabama! Thank you so much for fulfilling my wish for this book mellonhead and thank you for sending it my way caseyw Daelith. You both rock! I hope the books enjoyed Graceland, I know I did! I hope I will get a chance to read this book sooner rather than later.

TO BE READ

Amazon Editorial Review:
THE CORRECTIONS is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century-a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.

After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, THE CORRECTIONS brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.

This book is RESERVED for luckaye for the -1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die VBB- via BookObsessed.com.

I tried to read this book, but it just didn't grab me... so off it goes to luckaye! Perhaps I will give it another try in the future.

RELEASE NOTES:

This book is on its way to luckaye, sorry it took me so long... I hope you enjoy it :)

Gosh - what a heavy book to come all the way fom USA! Onto Mt TBR it goes .....