Friday, May 16, 2008
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers...the intro
Since I have listened to this book before on audio book (mostly as parts of it were seriously messed up so I didn't catch everything) I will try to weigh in with things pertinent to the current chapters and not hint at things to come. I realize that after these first chapters you all may be going, "umm, where are we going and how is this all related?" but I promise it does all come together. One thing I realized as I read these chapters is that I appreciate the ways that Lynch keeps us intrigued by her small twists that keep us on our toes and keep the book from becoming too formulaic and predictable...for example in the first chapter we don't realize that "Abbey" is actually a photo and not a person standing in the end until the end. Another example is the realization that Fee and the other girls believe Lucy must be pregnant even though she doesn't think she is...is she really? The characters are all quite interesting to me as well. Corri and Fee are such an adorable old pair, Abbey just interests me and makes me want to know where her life is going and Lucy and the other girls just make me go, "What?!" I am excited to reread and see everything unfold and to hear what everyone else thinks about this story.
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So, about that picture thing. I have a story related to that. In the second sentence of the book we read, "Abbey, as always, was smiling her dreamy smile...." My thinking was along the lines of, great, what kind of horrible author would make a comment about someone "as always" smiling a dreamy smile. Nobody in real life always smiles a dreamy smile. I was so turned off to the book by starting that way. So when I reached the end of the chapter and caught completely off guard with Abbey being a photo, I have to admit that I was so impressed with this start to the book, that I felt guilty for my quick judgment. Very cleverly done by Lynch. Bravo!
I must say I felt a certain kinship with Abbey in that first chapter on her, when she is lying in the sun on the island and daydreaming. I think I do a lot of daydreaming, probably more than I let on, and I really felt like I can relate to a lot of things she was thinking while on the island. Especially dreaming about pretty bras, that's my girl. ;)
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