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Title: An Unfinished Marriage by Joan Anderson ISBN: 0-7679-0871-6 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: middle-age crisis
Comment: I like both this book and Joan's first book, A Year by the sea. I like her written style and her honesty. When I read this book, I feel my heart beat and try to find out what is going to happen. It is a great book! As a woman, I understand her situation. I feel sorry for her. However, I just wonder how Robin (her husband) thinks of these two books. These two books unveiled their unfinished marriage, just like be naked in front of the public. I don't think I would like my husband to write and published our relationship "in public." And, I also wonder how her grown up children feel about the books? Will they feel comfortable about their parent's "problem" to be known? Will the books help their marriage? Well, I don't know. Probably I will have an answer as soon as Joan publishes her third book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thoughtful Comments about a Relationship
Comment: I loved Joan Anderson's book "A Year by the Sea" and I was very happy to see that she had written another book about her life. I wasn't disappointed with this novel and read it in one sitting. I have come to the conclusion that either you like this writing style, a memoir with a homey feel, or you don't. With that said, what this book is, is Joan's opinions about her life and her observations about her marriage. This book won't appeal to everyone. Not everyone will agree with her opinions and may find her constant observations egocentric but for me, it was a wonderful look into an intelligent woman's world of what makes her relationship work and not work. I love the way Joan writes through the seasons, expressing her transformation from the self limiting roles of wife and mother to the open ones of companion, trusted friend and soulmate. Anderson is not afraid to take a hard look at herself and analyze the reasons she falls into negative behavior and attitudes. What's more she genuinely wants to transform and allow her husband to transform in his own unique way without interfering. Not an easy thing to do. As I finshed the book, I felt as if I had just ended a conversation with a friend who had shared some secrets, fears, laughs and accomplishments with me. This was an enjoyable and enlightening memoir.
Rating: 2
Summary: An Unfinished Woman
Comment: This is a memoir about a woman so selfish, so castrating, that it is wonder that she has any marriage left to finish. I kept wondering why her husband, Robin puts up with her. She appears to have very little to offer. She shows him no love or understanding - it's all about her, her needs, her yearnings. She has no sympathy for his new premature retired state in an isolated beach community. She resents his furniture, his music, his golfing, his plans She gives him a hard time about a TV he wishes to install in the house and his plans for some home remodling. She announces to friends that she would like Robin to take a job in social services. She complains about the lack of money coming in since her husband retirement, yet balks at going to work. She left him the year before to "find herself" It appears as though she still hasn't.
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Title: A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson ISBN: 0767905938 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Walk on the Beach : Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman by JOAN ANDERSON ISBN: 0767914740 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Wisdom and the Senses: The Way of Creativity by Joan M. Erikson ISBN: 0393307107 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod by Cynthia Huntington ISBN: 1584652942 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dearly Beloved by Anne Morrow Lindbergh ISBN: 1556524900 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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