![]() I'd like to give it a *** but I am adding a 1/2 for all the work Brooks put into research. READ REVIEW 1 MARCH by Geraldine Brooks RELEASE DATE: MaBrooks combines her penchant for historical fiction ( Year of Wonders, 2001, etc.) with the literary-reinvention genre as she imagines the Civil War from the viewpoint of Little Women ’s Mr. I think she wanted to create a flawed man, and she did do that, I guess, too flawed? I don't know. What I think is that Brooks felt that in order for the story to work, Papa March had to be a stubborn git - but I think there would have been other better and more convincing ways to develop his character. not compelling is what comes to mind? So carefully and thoroughly and conscientiously researched and written that light and life never fully enter in and overall I felt a little bludgeoned and truly never warmed up at all to March who, it seemed to me was suspiciously good at justifying his infatuation as being something other than what it was and came across also as being immature in his insistence of his failures. He sees and participates (as a passive observer) in horrible things and most of his efforts to help seem wasted, eventually he falls ill, Marmee comes to nurse him, he won't go home with her, then Beth gets sick, you all know the story if you've read (Which I am going to assume you have if you read this novel.) So this is all about what happens to March while he is away, a window into the war. ![]() This is the back story about Papa March from, absent for that novel working as a chaplain and whatever is needed down in the war zone. Has been on my TBR shelf for far too long, but I wasn't looking forward to reading it as I have mixed feelings about other novels Brooks has written. ![]()
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