FINALLY finished another book. I think a multitude of factors affected why it took me so long to finish this one. Anyway, I finished the book The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley. I honestly didn't like this book. I don't know if it was the fact that it bounced around in time, and changed the narrator constantly, or if the fact that the storyline was a bit scattered, but it certainly isn't a book I want to read again. When I read the synopsis I thought it would have more about Charlie's daughter, than about his great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, but there really was limited information about his daughter.
This book was about a man named Charlie who found out that his ex-wife had a little girl who is his. He was afraid that this little girl would have the same 'sickness' his mother had, and that she would continue to suffer throughout her life. Basically this book follows the life of his great-grandmother, grandmother and mother so that the reader can fully understand what his life and his mother's life was like with her sickness. Definitely not what I expected.
I just want to clarify that, it's not that this book isn't well written, it's just not what I personally like in a story-line because of how it changes narrators without specifying. I also found it frustrating that the author didn't specify what kind of illness the mother had. I know part of it was epilepsy, but I'm almost wondering if she also had schizophrenia because of the visions she had. Anyway, unfortunately I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.
Anyway, I'm going to try to re-read The Hunger Games trilogy because the movie is coming out soon, and I want it fresh in my mind when I see the movie. But if I don't get to read it in time, I'll probably find/start Game of Thrones or something like that. Anyway, until next time, Happy Reading!
