Kathleen Basi
Auteur de A Song for the Road: A Novel
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A Song for the Road: A Novel par Kathleen M. Basi
I liked this book. Grief loss choices family religion and a driving trip. This is a story about a musical director and the road trip she takes. It just sort of ends and I think another book with the same characters would have been great.
A sad read that perhaps I was just not in the right mood for. Unfortunately for A Song for the Road, I had just read Minnie Darke’s The Lost Love Song a few days prior – a book that explored a similar theme of the power of music to bring people together – which I’ll admit could have affected my interest level. The cover of the book is gorgeous, and heretofore I had been absolutely in love with everything I’d read from new book club publisher Alcove Press, so I was saddened I didn’t enjoy this tale more.
The book is essentially a “great American road trip” tale, with two unlikely women becoming friends, sharing music and sights, and meeting new people along the way, each bringing a new perspective to our main character, Miriam. In this way, it will inevitably be compared to the movie Thelma & Louise, as all road trip books about two women are. It was incredibly sorrow-filled, too, because Miriam was embarking on a recently discovered road trip plan, along with musical accompaniment, designed by her deceased twin teenagers who had perished the year before along with their father, Miriam’s husband, And, as she follows their plan, she reflects on her life and the time she had with her family and thinks perhaps she didn’t live it quite right while she could. But how does one get over the devastation of losing their whole family?
A Song for the Road has the added bonus of including a Reading Group Guide, which contains a Q&A with the author, Discussion Questions, a fun graphic/Checklist of Kathleen’s Road Trip Stops. You can preview it at https://alcovepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/A-Song-for-the-Road-Book-Club.... It would have been amazing if the songs played throughout the book were included in this Book Club Kit, but the locations she visits on her road trip are listed, which are pretty neat.
A big thank you to Kathleen Basi, Alcove Press, and NetGalley for providing an Advance Reader Copy in exchange for this review.
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The book is essentially a “great American road trip” tale, with two unlikely women becoming friends, sharing music and sights, and meeting new people along the way, each bringing a new perspective to our main character, Miriam. In this way, it will inevitably be compared to the movie Thelma & Louise, as all road trip books about two women are. It was incredibly sorrow-filled, too, because Miriam was embarking on a recently discovered road trip plan, along with musical accompaniment, designed by her deceased twin teenagers who had perished the year before along with their father, Miriam’s husband, And, as she follows their plan, she reflects on her life and the time she had with her family and thinks perhaps she didn’t live it quite right while she could. But how does one get over the devastation of losing their whole family?
A Song for the Road has the added bonus of including a Reading Group Guide, which contains a Q&A with the author, Discussion Questions, a fun graphic/Checklist of Kathleen’s Road Trip Stops. You can preview it at https://alcovepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/A-Song-for-the-Road-Book-Club.... It would have been amazing if the songs played throughout the book were included in this Book Club Kit, but the locations she visits on her road trip are listed, which are pretty neat.
A big thank you to Kathleen Basi, Alcove Press, and NetGalley for providing an Advance Reader Copy in exchange for this review.
#ASongForTheRoad
#KathleenBasi
#AlcovePress
#NetGalley
#GeneralFiction
#ParentingAndFamilies
#WomensFiction
#BookClubs… (plus d'informations)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 58
- Popularité
- #284,346
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 11