“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said, and she would have told him. “I only wanted to be a reader.” Reading the first chapter, I loved it so much I was fully expecting it to be a 5 star read but it lost its momentum as we jumped forward in time. It is beautiful that this book covers 5 ...

I absolutely adored The Dutch House so I was eager to read another book by Patchett. Commonwealth was the next one that was available from my library. I ended up really enjoying this book. I think the way the story is told is a little hard to sink in to at first. Patchett tends to jump around when...