Scan barcode
cook_memorial_public_library's review against another edition
5.0
A 2018 staff favorite recommended by Ann.. Check our catalog: https://encore.cooklib.org/iii/encore/search/C__Sin%20the%20great%20green%20room%20gary__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=gold
drcbooks's review against another edition
3.0
An interesting life of a great children's author. Her struggles with love and feelings of inadequacy made her, and the human experience, feel very real and present. The beginning of the book was hard for me to get into due to Margaret's extreme privilege and wealth. Constant vacationing on islands and checks from Daddy felt dull and disappointing.
wendymcclure's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed this enough to get past the slightly creepy narrative style that related a lot of MWB's intimate diary angst in the omniscient third person. Like I wouldn't have minded a direct quote once in a while instead of constant "Margaret secretly despaired that deep down blah blah blah" paraphrase. But I am pretty obsessed with reading about the children's literature scene in 1940s New York and the clever weirdos who populated it, and this delivered. A good portion of it is well-heeled literary lifestyle porn, which is fine, I guess. I mean, I've read three or four books about this world now and from what I can tell, everyone was constantly stumbling across ramshackle old farmhouses and/or quaint coldwater flats and buying and/or renting them for a song and filling them with charming antiques (apparently MWB furnished one of her places with FURS) and that all sounds like fun. I wish the book had been a little more gossipy (I have the feeling MWB herself would have dished) and/or more lit-critical, though I'll probably check out the Leonard Marcus bio of Brown at some point for that reason. Overall this was fine; just not quite as chewy as I like them.
sophielr's review against another edition
4.0
I found reading this book very relaxing, something soothing about the clean simplicity of the writing. Margaret's life story was compelling and interesting and sad.