the wife – Cannonball Read 17

What Would a Wife Do?

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

August 31, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

This book is amazing. Wolitzer perfectly captures the voice of a wife who has gone bitter and is full of some regrets on how she lived her life. The main character, Joan Castleman is flying to Finland with her husband, Joseph “Joe” Castleman. Joe has won the Helsinki for her works in literature. Joan starts to think back to when she first met Joe and also provides insight into how he is based on the women who raised him. The back and forth to the past […]

He was completely on his own in this female world.

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

August 25, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

It’s funny because I more or less liked this book just fine (although the blurbs on the book promise it to be something that I am not sure it is, and this promise is hinted at in the book and suggests there really should be about an additional 100 pages here) but something this book does that I find fascinating is undercut two, count em two, very lauded books that received buckets of praise for something this book already accomplished years earlier. I will come […]

So Many Babies: Kristin Lavransdatter part II

The Wife by Sigrid Undset

January 7, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I previously reviewed the first book of this trilogy by Sigird Undset, here: https://everyday-offershub.com/2017/01/its-like-game-of-thrones-but-without-all-the-violence-and-scheming-and-a-lot-more-jesus/ If the first book deals with the innocence of childhood giving way to the folly of youth and young love, this book brings home the reality and consequences of choices. We find Kristin married, away from her homeland, and now head of a large estate. She and her husband have moved past what was an interminably long courtship (where whatever kind of honeymoon they were ever going to has transpired and […]

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