Patrick Gennesis Gennesis থেকে নিউ ইয়র্ক থেকে নিউ ইয়র্ক

If I only had this kind of money. Travel around the world learning how to do things in the country of origin (French cooking, Japanese flower arranging, etc.) This is the life.

Done. Hmm. I was eager to see how it turned out. The ending was definitely not one that I saw coming. I felt that it could go either way: happy or sad. I guess overall it was well written and it kept me engaged. But the last hundred or so pages just took a totally different turn than the rest of the book. For most of the book, it's about this family and the people they deal with in the town. And although the end is very much about something that happens to them, it was just a direction that seemed to be a little out of nowhere. I don't want to say any more lest I reveal too much. I KNOW it was built up, but it still seemed like a little bit much somehow. ---- I grabbed this book off the shelf to take with me on Sat. night to read on the train. There are other books I wanted to read first, but I didn't want to take one that I was afraid of losing or spilling something on. It's kind of soap-opera-y and in the prologue there are two misuses of the word "himself." I almost stopped reading it right there, but I didn't. For god's sake. How did Russo's editor not catch the use of "himself" instead of "him"? Twice! This is one of my grammatical pet peeves, so unless the book winds up being really good, I'm going to give it a lousy review. You are forewarned, Richard Russo!