This book was pretty uneven, dragging in spots. Not that I needed every ending tied up in a pink bow, but give me a little sense of the evolution in thinking and growing in her characters. Not because of the Baltimore setting, but because her wonderfully crafted and flawed characters seemed to stay stuck in their dysfunction, never learning anything that would make their lives better. It began to feel like I was reading the same book over and over. Some I have loved, like Accidental Tourist and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. I've read every AT book since Morgan's Passing. I really think Audible should find a way to mark books that are read vs. When a performer steals that all for herself, my listening experience turns into watching an over-acted movie. I like BOOKS because I get to be active in the interp. Let me (the listener-reader) discover my own interpretation. Just read to me, in a pleasant, normal voice. How could the performance have been better? Has A Spool of Blue Thread turned you off from other books in this genre? Audible, how can I tell if a reader is simply going to read to me (and let me do my own internal interp), or if he/she is going to slather on the dramatization and leave me grinding my teeth? I don't want to order another book like this. Her voice for Nora makes me want to throw things. I just want to be read to, I don't need the reader to draw out the word "s l o w" as if I didn't know what it meant without her interpretation. Also, the reader over-dramatizes every word. I have loved Anne Tyler in the past, but this is so boring (I'm 1/3 through), I just don't think I can finish it. What disappointed you about A Spool of Blue Thread? From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the 21st century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor.īrimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler's work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959.
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