Matthew Quick
The Silver Linings Playbook
This is another offering that I received from the reading club that I attend. It seemed to be promising, even if the subject matter is heavy going, seeing as it deals with the first person point of view of a man suffering from some kind of mental illness. Pat Peoples, the lead is separated from his wife Nikki, when the novel opens, and has been living in a psychiatric hospital for a unrevealed amount of time.
I didn’t really warm to the character of Pat, which is something of a necessity for reading this book, seeing as everything is seen first person through Pat’s eyes. Although his immediate family, particularly his parents are painted as being very protective, and nurturing, I perceived them as being overly controlling, they almost cause Pat to revert to a teenager’s behaviour. There are many secrets being kept from him, and Quick, in my opinion drags the mystery of where Nikki is for far too long.
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hgolightly1982
I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things.
The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at.
It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track.
I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.
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