~*~Jan Book Club Discussion Time~*~

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Wed, 01-17-2007 - 8:35am

For those of you who are participating in our January Book Club----we are discussing today, the first half of the book!


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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 2:28pm
I was also wondering what everyone thinks of Norah having an affair???

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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 4:11pm

I think she was trying to fill a void in her life...an emptyness that David left by being emotionally distant. I don't even think it was about sex but more about 'feeling something' since she was always so numb inside. As with any human, she wanted to feel alive and needed and worthy of attention! As with any affair she was looking for something she wasn't getting at home.

Denise

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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 4:15pm

How do you feel about the 16 yr old he found in his old family home? I honestly feel this was wierdly thrown in and then resolved..but could have had more of an impact on the story. Part of me hoped that she would in fact be his 'supposedly dead sister's daughter'..that perhaps it would come out that she'd been sent away without his knowing. Or at least at the end she could have been confronted by Norah and Paul and had something to add to the ending.

Denise

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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 8:32pm

I like your idea about the sister. That would have made for an interesting plot twist.

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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 9:25pm

I think she was needing to feel like a woman again!


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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 9:54pm
I thought the young girl was a bit thrown in. Its like they needed some excuse for things with David and Norah to come to a head and for him to confront his past in some way. I felt it was a bit as if the author was trying to think of a way for it all to happen so came up with the girl. I know he then treated her like the daughter he gave away, but I found it a bit odd and then she just moves on with her life and thats it. Didn't care for that part too much as it didn't fit for me.

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Sun, 01-21-2007 - 3:45pm

Ok, I may be in the minority here, but I am finding this book a bit depressing. I'm having a hard time reading the rest of it and "enjoying" it. Anybody else feeling this way? Not that it isn't an interesting story or bad writing or anything, I am just not enjoying it the way I thought I would.

Karin

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Mon, 01-22-2007 - 11:14am

I too found it very emotional! Since I'm a real 'feeler' I really felt it as I read it and by the time I finished I felt like an emotional wreck! I guess I still enjoyed it because I haven't read anything in a long time that made me so 'emotionally invested'! I truly felt tied to the story even if it wasn't a happy one.

Denise

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Mon, 01-22-2007 - 1:41pm

I agree Denise, it would have been nice in the end if she had come back and shed some light onto David's secret to help Paul and Norah resolve or at least better understand David's actions all those year. But I think with her coming into his life at that point, and knowing his secret, he finally got to relax around her and really realize maybe what his life could have been like had he not kept the secret or even gave Phoebe away, but it was too late by then to undo the deeds he had done, or at least in his mind it was.

However, I think if she had come in the story "as his supposed dead sister's daughter" that would have been too cheesy and made me not enjoy the story as much as I did.

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Wed, 01-24-2007 - 9:28am

Why does anyone have an affair? I think she was looking for someone to fill the void in her life. :)

I know you posted this awhile back. I'm always late in posting to ?'s

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