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A review by melindamoor
Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
3.0
A lovely, heartwarming story, but did not exactly hit the mark with me.
Despite the sometimes tear-jerking events, I couldn't help feeling that somehow it was a bit too light.
You know, like what Jane Austen thought about P&P (NOT that this book compares, it's something completely different, even though it has a character called Mr Collins.): “rather too light, and bright, and sparkling. It wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, unconnected with the story"
But possibly it's just me being in not quite the right mood for it. Mrs Bird would tell me not to let the side down and buckle up I guess and rightly so. :)
BUT, and would you believe it??? MR COLLINS was hands down the best character of the book!! I almost fell in love with him. :)
Thank you for the recommendation, Beverly.
Despite the sometimes tear-jerking events, I couldn't help feeling that somehow it was a bit too light.
You know, like what Jane Austen thought about P&P (NOT that this book compares, it's something completely different, even though it has a character called Mr Collins.): “rather too light, and bright, and sparkling. It wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, unconnected with the story"
But possibly it's just me being in not quite the right mood for it. Mrs Bird would tell me not to let the side down and buckle up I guess and rightly so. :)
BUT, and would you believe it??? MR COLLINS was hands down the best character of the book!! I almost fell in love with him. :)
Thank you for the recommendation, Beverly.