5/28/2023 0 Comments Book review great circle![]() Both struggle to find loving relationships with significant others. ![]() Shipstead follows Marian and Jamie as they approach adulthood and begin to discern where their passions lie: for Jamie creating art for Marian piloting airplanes. Left mostly unsupervised, Marian and Jamie spend an unforgettable childhood pursuing adventures with Caleb, their neighbor who similarly has little adult supervision. Great Circle lays out the story of Marian and Jamie Graves, orphaned at an early age, then deposited with their eccentric, artist uncle in Missoula, Montana in the early 1900s. Great Circle is a masterpiece and I cannot recommend it strongly enough. To say that this was the best book I have read in a long time, is an understatement. The characters had become my friends and I didn’t want to have to leave them forever. Despite the slowness with which I read it, however, I found myself consciously slowing down as I came to the end of the book. Quiet times for reading were few and far between. ![]() ![]() But while I was reading it, I had five weeks of the delightful company of my L&L co-editor and her two small children. And I read it at a pace slower than any book I can remember reading in my recent past. There is no question that Great Circle requires a commitment-at 589 pages. ![]()
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