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Good Things I Wish You (2009)

by A. Manette Ansay(Favorite Author)

3.08 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061239968 (ISBN13: 9780061239960)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harper

review 1: This book was creative in ways that books usually aren't. It blended two stories -- each one a hundred or so years removed from the other. I know other stories do that too but this one, written in Ansay's style, doesn't reveal all and allows/forces her reader to think about the commonalities of each telling and it's not until the very last page that reader can say, "Aha! How exquisite and perfect is this." I also loved that the underlying themes involved passion about music -- performing and composing-- as well as writing -- finding what's true and right and finding the right way to tell the story.
review 2: The worst thing a book can be is boring. Well, actually the worst thing a book can be is American Psycho, but boring is a close second. And Good Things I W... moreish You was a decidedly dull read. It concerns Jeanette, a college lecturer who is writing a novelised version of Johannes Brahms' relationship with Clara Schumann. At the same time, she is halfheartedly pursuing a sort of relationship with a German named Hart, and trying to answer the age-old snoozefest of a question, can men and women ever just be friends? (Yes. You don't need to write a novel to explain this.)I never got a good handle on how Jeanette felt about Hart. I also found the story-within-story chapters about Brahms and Clara to be wishy-washy and uninteresting. Ultimately, this was a bland read. It wasn't offensively bad, but it wasn't particularly interesting. less

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