tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post2397152780280771080..comments2023-08-26T02:27:21.897-07:00Comments on Frisbee: A Book Journal: BiblioBits: Ursula Parrott's Ex-Wife & Susan Howatch's Starbridge SeriesFrisbeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-54008068725647757442011-06-23T20:58:12.443-07:002011-06-23T20:58:12.443-07:00I've never read Halls' Well of Loneliness!...I've never read Halls' Well of Loneliness! I wonder if it's at Gutenberg...<br /><br />SPOILER ALERT: I'll tell you how this ends since you're not likely to find it at your public library.:) <br /><br />After the divorce, Pat eventually gets over it and meets her true love, a very nice reporter (the men are both reporters!), but he is married to a woman--and this is very weird--who wears a mask over half her face because of a car accident (his fault). He sees her every other weekend, and we believe it's just a pro forma marriage. He has a chance to go to Asia--he is deeply bored by his job--but the wife refuses to let him go. <br /><br />When the wife shows up pregnant at Pat's office and asks her to bow out, Pat is so lovely and well-behaved that she helps WIFE buy a new wardrobe to go to Asia with him (the only way to keep her man, according to Pat) and takes her to an artist who makes WHOLE MASKS to wear on different occasions! <br /><br />So, wow--masks, good behavior. I was stunned.<br /><br />Pat ends up married to a man she doesn't love, but he is nice. And there is a flash of a hope that on her trip around the world with him she will run into her TRUE LOVE again.<br /><br />Morality all ambiguous and I much admire Pat, but could she be real?!Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-54419646633632652822011-06-23T18:32:27.399-07:002011-06-23T18:32:27.399-07:00But you forgot to tell me how it ends! ::grin:: I ...But you forgot to tell me how it ends! ::grin:: I need to know if it leaves you with the same feeling that Hall's Well of Loneliness leaves you with at the end. Will I be furious? <br /><br />And I love it when characters in books are reading the same things you're reading: perfect literary alignment!Buried In Printhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808249065026802365noreply@blogger.com