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A review by jlworley
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
5.0
I hold Pat Conroy largely responsible for my longtime desire to live on the Carolina coast; now that I do, at least part of why I love it is because I get to feel like I'm walking around inside one of his novels.
This book took me two weeks to read; that's FOREVER compared to most I read, but the reason was simply because I wanted to savor every bit of it. Pat Conroy tells beautiful stories with characters I end up feeling like I know in real life. In most novels, that makes me want to speed through, to find out what happens to so-and-so, etc - but Conroy's words are woven together so delightfully I find myself re-reading sentences just because I love the way the words feel bumping around in my head. I borrowed my copy from the local library but will likely purchase it to live on my bookshelf just so I can mark some of my favorite sentences to come back to whenever the urge strikes, and because I'll likely start missing some of the folks who live in the story and will want to get reacquainted with them.
All that to say: highly recommended read.
This book took me two weeks to read; that's FOREVER compared to most I read, but the reason was simply because I wanted to savor every bit of it. Pat Conroy tells beautiful stories with characters I end up feeling like I know in real life. In most novels, that makes me want to speed through, to find out what happens to so-and-so, etc - but Conroy's words are woven together so delightfully I find myself re-reading sentences just because I love the way the words feel bumping around in my head. I borrowed my copy from the local library but will likely purchase it to live on my bookshelf just so I can mark some of my favorite sentences to come back to whenever the urge strikes, and because I'll likely start missing some of the folks who live in the story and will want to get reacquainted with them.
All that to say: highly recommended read.