I finished A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. This was the YMCA book club for this month and I finally got to go to a meeting again. :)
I have never read King Lear, but another book club member said it is very similar to the story of King Lear. This is the story of 3 daughters of a farmer and the dad giving the farm signing the farm over to his daughters and their husbands.
This book took me a while to get into. It felt really slow. Once the Jess Clark character came around, I knew some excitement would be added. I also liked that I could pick out a lot of the names, cities, and locations since the book takes place in Iowa. In the beginning I felt sorry for Ginny and really wanted happiness for her, but after the Jess incident, I could only feel sorry for Ty. Things got out of hand really quickly in the book and just started getting worse and worse.
It's hard to talk about the book without giving anything that happens away. Things just kept getting worse and it made me so angry. I just wanted something good to happen, but nothing did. Overall though, I really liked the book and was glad to read an Iowa book/author.
Now I kind of want to read King Lear....
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