I managed to pick up a good novel and actually finish it within a few days last week. Way behind on my 52-in-52 quota though. Not sure what to make of this one. I really liked Revolutionary Road, however bleak it was. This other novel by Richard Yates, The Easter Parade, was not as depressing and despairing as Revolutionary Road, which is nice, but I couldn't connect with the characters as well. Yates opens the story by proclaiming that the two sister protagonists are predestined to have unhappy lives because their parents divorced when they were little, and that one of the sisters "never understood anything". I dunno, I didn't really get that from the story. I didn't think their lives were so terribly unhappy. Just ordinary. And I didn't really understand why Emily supposedly didn't understand anything. Maybe I am just as thick. I did still kinda like the book; Yates is a very good writer. But this one didn't draw me in like Revolutionary Road did. (I'm actually kind of glad. Now that the days are getting shorter, I don't really need extra downers. You know?)
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