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I read all the reviews for A Scattered Life before I bought it and I was a little anxious. There are some extremely negative reviews, but most failed to say why they didn't like the book, so I bought it anyway. I sat down to read it and couldn't put it down. The prose is amazing, the characters are well-developed and believeable with all their very human frailties. The author managed to take a storyline and present it from three different points of view and didn't falter once. Skyla, a rootless
I wanted to something to read on on my amazon iphone app, saw the discounted book and said: Why not take a chance...I read the book in one round-trip subway commute - it's a fast read...In my opinion the best character died, and then everyone made up in the end for a Hollywood ending. The book is probably an OK basis for a Lifetime movie (or soap opera storyline) -- if you like such movies, you will probably like this book.
A book I stumbled upon. I just bought my first kindle and was online looking for an inexpensive or even free book to try out. I found AmazonEncore, which I had never heard of before. I liked the concept so loaded this book on my kindle. Yesterday. I read the entire book in one sitting. The story is mostly told from the perspective of Skyla who lost her mother at a young age and traveled the country with an unsettled father. She meets Thomas and marries him, and a good portion of the book is also...
Very enjoyable book! It is about love, relationships and the difference in people.
I really wanted to like this book. I wanted it to be a shining example of all the potential that e-books have opened up for independent authors and readers alike.I didn't. It felt....uncomfortable. I've read novels where the characters were small town narrow-minded people that felt comfortable. They were either still sympathetic characters or clearly not. These were... not sympathetic but felt as if the author thought they might be. And while there was some attempt at a redemption near the end,
There was a period in my life where I felt the need to be detached. Not physically… being AROUND people was not the issue for me, the “emotional connection” is what I feared. I had been forced to face a string of emotional torture and as a result I was (almost) irrevocably damaged. I did not like to talk, I did not form attachments of any kind. I avoided social situations, and more importantly convinced myself that not caring was the easiest path that life had to offer. Thankfully I recognized m...
Karen McQuestion writes for those of us women who need to identify with other women who don't talk about how much they make, women who didn't set aside their promising editorial careers for family and whine about it, women who don't have summer homes "in the Cape", women who spy on their overky successful but gloriously egocentric cheating husbands, and so on. When you search high and low for a book that you can identify with, laugh with, cry, dream, and become a part of, Karen McQuestion is the...
Thank you to Karen McQuestion and Goodreads.com I won this book in a Giveaway.Very emotional story that you get sucked into right away. The characters are meaningful and it's a very well written book. Surprise ending ! I would have liked a little more meat and potatoes about why this book is "a scattered life" from Skyla, it would have helped develop her, the book just eluded to it. Overall it was a great story that I found myself thinking about after it was over.
I don't normally like "sweet stories," but this was written so beautifully that it kept my interest. The character development was done well. The simplicity of the story made it possible to emphasize the relationships between just a few characters. I really enjoyed this light read.
I enjoyed reading this book. Great literature? No. Deep philosophical impact? No. Fascinating character study? No. Enjoyable and affecting read? Absolutely!Generally, I found the characters to be more flesh and blood than one-dimensional -- they were a bit of a type, but then it was necessary to create the tensions in the book. Not everyone was likable or even understandable -- which is what made them so believable. I wanted to find the book trite and pedestrian, but little things tugged at me -...
I bought this for $2.69 on Amazon and thought I'd give it a shot. *SPOILERS BELOW* There's a lady, Skyla, who used to work in a bar and met this weirdo (almost Autistic like in his need for order and schedule) Thomas and married him. They have a clingy daughter, who has no discernable purpose or personality in the book. Thomas has a mother, who's like most sitcom MIL's and thinks that she's always right, but is really just a big busybody (think Everyone Loves Raymond Mom). And there's a neighbor...
Most of this book was just this quiet little story about three women and their desire to have fulfilling lives. I liked it well enough and really didn't expect it to get as intense and dramatic as it did. Not sure if it was because I could relate to being the mother of several children whose lives I exist for,or if it was because my family has recently lost a loved one after a very short fight against pancreatic cancer,but I found myself deeply affected,to the point of having to put the book do
This is a very disjointed story. Few, if any, of the characters are particularly likeable and their situations don't seem very realistic. I spent most of the book WAITING for something to happen and when it finally pulled you in and picked up steam, it was simply to wrap up.
