Comments on: Review: Wit’s End, Karen Joy Fowler

By: samantha1020

samantha1020 — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:15:08 +0000

This is the first that I’ve heard of this book but I am definitely intrigued. Adding this one to the evergrowing TBR list thanks to you 🙂

By: Christy

Christy — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:24:03 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny. I kind of liked the movie adaptation of The Jane Austen Book Club (yay Emily Blunt and Maria Bello), but it's not an entirely faithful adaptation. There are some parts that are, but the movie definitely tried to gloss up things - made characters younger, left out really intriguing backstories. I listened to the book on audio cd and enjoyed it.

By: litlove

litlove — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:50:50 +0000

Another Karen Joy Fowler I really must get my hands on. Was this book published before or after We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves? She’s writing at an amazing rate whichever it was.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:45:12 +0000

In reply to Athira. Are they? I have been wanting to read Bernice McFadden for a few years now, and have balked because American historical fiction isn't usually my thing. But I should give her a try!

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:43:37 +0000

In reply to Steph. You know, I saw the movie of that, didn't care for it, and completely wrote Karen Joy Fowler off, which now seems very unfair. I want to give the book a try sometime -- Fowler's so funny and her books are so well-observed.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:38:44 +0000

In reply to Katie @ Words for Worms. It is! I really, really, really recommend We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves -- it was one of the strangest and best books I read last year.

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:19:49 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. Who doesn't? :p (I may have overplayed the cult angle? As central as it is to the plot, there are large sections of the book that don't talk about it at all.)

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:19:10 +0000

In reply to Kailana. Do! I'd start with We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, if I were you.

By: Athira

Athira — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:07:24 +0000

This one does sound very fascinating! I love reading books that blend fact and fiction so well that you end up wanting to believe that the book was all fact. Bernice McFadden’s books are like that. Looks like I have one more author to check out.

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:04:40 +0000

This sounds like a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed your analysis of it. I’ve only read one book by Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club, but I did actually enjoy that quite a lot, even though I suspect that is not a very popular opinion. I had never really considered that Fowler might have a penchant for the quirky or weird in her writing, but that certainly appeals to me. Your description makes this sound an awful lot like something Kate Atkinson might write, and she is one of my very favorite writers. I had already flagged We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves for future reading, but I think I’ll add this to the list as well.