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Started Early, Took My Dog
by Kate Atkinson
UPDATED REVIEW:
After 24 hours, I've digested this book and come away realizing it really was not enjoyable. I had to get to the very last quarter of the book to even begin to find the story. And honestly, Tilly was just unnecessary to the whole plot. there was no need to delve into her whole psyche and the whole stairway to memory loss. There are just so many threads flapping in the wind and the last chapters do little to crochet them into a neat and appealing tea cozy.
OLD REVIEW: Started out not giving a toss about any of the characters and I was a little exhausted with the hundreds of smaller stories that were off-shoots from the action taking place:
Example:
Tracy was taking Courtney to the park. They had "fun" and so naturally I would want to read more about this but to get to the point of their outing I needed to read through an epic internal dialogue about Tracy's past and her trip with her parents and cold-boiled eggs which her father would swallow whole. I felt like a lot of the author's background stories were basically in parenthesis and I would have loved to just gloss over it and move on but that would have left me with about 20 or 30 pages of the actual book.
But, and there is a but. By the time I got to page 226, I was onboard for the rest of the story and I had already pieced together what had happened so there really wasn't a "Great Reveal" at the end for me.
After 24 hours, I've digested this book and come away realizing it really was not enjoyable. I had to get to the very last quarter of the book to even begin to find the story. And honestly, Tilly was just unnecessary to the whole plot.
Spoiler
She could have appeared as a good samaritan to save Tracy andOLD REVIEW: Started out not giving a toss about any of the characters and I was a little exhausted with the hundreds of smaller stories that were off-shoots from the action taking place:
Example:
Tracy was taking Courtney to the park. They had "fun" and so naturally I would want to read more about this but to get to the point of their outing I needed to read through an epic internal dialogue about Tracy's past and her trip with her parents and cold-boiled eggs which her father would swallow whole. I felt like a lot of the author's background stories were basically in parenthesis and I would have loved to just gloss over it and move on but that would have left me with about 20 or 30 pages of the actual book.
But, and there is a but. By the time I got to page 226, I was onboard for the rest of the story and I had already pieced together what had happened so there really wasn't a "Great Reveal" at the end for me.