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abi_ilana's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
soccrjojo's review against another edition
4.0
Not my favorite all-time book, but for some reason I couldn't put it down. Interesting story. I usually don't like books set in this time period (1920-1930s) - think The Great Gatsby but this book made the time period more real.
amiespeak's review against another edition
5.0
This book has a tie in to Fourtune's Rocks. These are my two favorite Anita Shreve novels.
racheldchilds's review against another edition
4.0
Romantic, heart-breaking, really like it and will read her others.
nickeal1's review against another edition
4.0
Moving tale with interesting insight into unions and textile towns in US .
jbarr5's review against another edition
4.0
Sea Glass by Anita Shreeve
Starts out in 1929 and Sexton and her have gotten married, bought a house in NH.
Anorah tries to make the house a home. She preserves and labels the foods they've harvested at her mother's house.
Other chapters named McDermott (runs some depts. in the mill) and Alfonso, Vivian, Alice and Harold-her parents write letters and tell their stories.
Love hearing of all the colors of the glass she finds while walking on the beach.
When the banks and Wall Street fail and the textile factories are on the verge of closing, cutting wages, going on strike, what is the solution.
Loved hearing of the textile factory tasks. She finds lipstick on his collar and he shrugs it off due to all the stress he's under but she knows...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Starts out in 1929 and Sexton and her have gotten married, bought a house in NH.
Anorah tries to make the house a home. She preserves and labels the foods they've harvested at her mother's house.
Other chapters named McDermott (runs some depts. in the mill) and Alfonso, Vivian, Alice and Harold-her parents write letters and tell their stories.
Love hearing of all the colors of the glass she finds while walking on the beach.
When the banks and Wall Street fail and the textile factories are on the verge of closing, cutting wages, going on strike, what is the solution.
Loved hearing of the textile factory tasks. She finds lipstick on his collar and he shrugs it off due to all the stress he's under but she knows...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
lindseysparks's review against another edition
1.0
This is set in the same town and even the same house as Fortune's Rocks, which I read years ago and remember liking. I gave up on this one about 100 pages in. I usually like novels that are narrated by different connected characters, but this one bugged me. Only two of the characters felt real (the two women). And Sexton's sections made me dislike Honoria and made her more unbelievable, so that left me with just one narrator whose sections I was enjoying out of I think six narrators (I didn't like that character either, but at least she was interesting). It also felt like the author was trying a bit too hard to be literary and it just made some things confusing by not being very clear. I realized I was only reading this before bed to put me to sleep, so I decided it was time to call it quits.
jrenouard's review against another edition
3.0
Good book but not as good as Pilot's Wife. Set in 1929/1930 during the stock market crash, it follows 5 people and looking at the convergence of their lives and issues around the unionization efforts, poverty and child labor.
This is her 3rd book based in the same house as Pilot's Wife. Interesting concept - "place" as a character. She's also playing with an idea that a place can have many stories.
A couple of observations on Shreve's style. In this book she's switching 3rd person perspective between the 5 main characters. Makes for interesting transitions in voice and perspective. I've read books that switch 1st person but never switching 3rd person. Its an interesting device. She also does not wrap things up cleanly. Her works seem to end with a melancholy tone.
This is her 3rd book based in the same house as Pilot's Wife. Interesting concept - "place" as a character. She's also playing with an idea that a place can have many stories.
A couple of observations on Shreve's style. In this book she's switching 3rd person perspective between the 5 main characters. Makes for interesting transitions in voice and perspective. I've read books that switch 1st person but never switching 3rd person. Its an interesting device. She also does not wrap things up cleanly. Her works seem to end with a melancholy tone.