Kate’s 2¢: “The amateur marriage: a novel” by Anne Tyler

“The amateur marriage: a novel” by Anne Tyler

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares her thoughts about what she reads. Inho…

   Many of these events and issues resonated with me. They brought back a lot of memories from my own experiences of raising children.  The big differences in my marriage were that we never were violent nor out-and-out yelled at each other and we are still married.

   I agree with Michael, who said: Show some charity here. We did the best we could. We did our darndest. We were just unskilled…It wasn’t from lack of trying.

From www.annetyler.com

   ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

From NLS/BARD/LOCC:

The amateur marriage: a novel DB57373

Tyler, Anne. Reading time: 12 hours, 47 minutes.

Read by Margaret Strom. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Family

Psychological Fiction

Bestsellers

Baltimore residents Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay fall in love at first sight at the start of World War II and marry impulsively. Remaining completely incompatible despite increasing prosperity, they spend the next five decades making themselves, and their three children, miserable. Bestseller. 2004.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Observations by gaslight: stories from the world of Sherlock Holmes” by Lyndsay Faye

“Observations by gaslight: stories from the world of Sherlock Holmes” by Lyndsay Faye

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares her thoughts about what she reads. Inho…

   This was a book included on the 7-book cartridge the NLS sent to me. I enjoyed reading one or two stories each evening. In-depth personalities of Holmes and Watson emerged that I’d not known of before.

 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lyndsay Faye is an American author. Her first novel was the Sherlockian pastiche Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson[1] and she has been nominated for the Edgar Award for The Gods of Gotham[2] and Jane Steele.[3] The Gods of Gotham was named “the year’s best mystery novel” by the American Library Association.[4]

Life[edit]

Having discovered Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation Sherlock Holmes when she was 10,[5] her interest in the famous sleuth continues to be part of her life as a member of both The Baker Street Irregulars and Baker Street Babes.[5] Faye described the debt all mystery authors owe to Conan Doyle saying “You can’t escape Sherlock Holmes as a mystery writer. You simply cannot. It would be like trying to deal with astrophysics without Newton or modern art without Picasso.”[6]

Faye attended R. A. Long High School[2] as did her future spouse, Gabriel Lehner.[2]

Career[edit]

2016 brought Faye’s re-imagining of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre titled Jane Steele.[7]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Observations by gaslight: stories from the world of Sherlock Holmes DB114521

Faye, Lyndsay Reading time: 10 hours, 34 minutes.

Polly Lee; Dan Calley

Short Stories

Mystery and Detective Stories

“Lyndsay Faye-international bestseller, translated into fifteen languages, and a two-time Edgar Award nominee-first appeared on the literary scene with Dust and Shadow, her now-classic novel pitting Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper, and later produced The Whole Art of Detection, her widely acclaimed collection of traditional Watsonian tales. Now Faye is back with Observations by Gaslight, a thrilling volume of both new and previously published short stories and novellas narrated by those who knew the Great Detective. Beloved adventuress Irene Adler teams up with her former adversary in a near-deadly inquiry into a room full of eerily stopped grandfather clocks. Learn of the case that cemented the lasting friendship between Holmes and Inspector Lestrade, and of the tragic crime which haunted the Yarder into joining the police force. And witness Stanley Hopkins’s first meeting with the remote logician he idolizes, who will one day become his devoted mentor. From familiar faces like landlady Mrs. Hudson to minor characters like Lomax the sub-librarian, Observations by Gaslight-entirely epistolary, told through diaries, telegrams, and even grocery lists-paints a masterful portrait of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as you have never seen them before.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.