Book Review: The Correspondent

There are a couple of things I don't normally do. I don't normally participate in book clubs, because I read by mood and can't force myself to read something for a book club when I'm not in the mood. And I don't normally pick up contemporary fiction because I'm not interested in reading about ordinary people going through ordinary issues. Real life is ordinary enough, I want to read about the extraordinary. But about a week ago a lady at my church invited me to join her little family and friends book club, and for a reason I still can't figure out I said yes. Then, I hadn't planned on reading the book they were discussing, since I only had a week to find and read it, but the library had it, so I made a token effort, thinking 1) I wouldn't like it and 2) I wouldn't finish it. Well, I read a third of the book Friday night, then stayed up far too late finishing the whole thing Saturday night. The book is The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, and it is an epistolary novel (meaning told…

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