Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall
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Book Reviews of Without a Map: A Memoir
Book Review: too much map
Summary: 3 Stars
Although this book started with quite a jump and kept me interested, by the middle I was getting too much redundancy. I'm glad this author told her story and shared it as a tool for relationships and to learn from.Book Review: Where is this story going?
Summary: 2 Stars
I struggled to get through this book. I was really captured at the beginning, especially where I grew up in the same town as Hall's mother and was familiar with the locations in the book. I felt sorry for Hall's situation and couldn't even imagine sustaining such abuse as she did while pregnant. Obviously it messed her up quite a bit. Hall is truly gifted and I enjoyed her diction and tone.
Once the baby was born (or maybe once she broke up with the fisherman), this story kind of fell apart. She talks about events as fragments and doesn't talk about why she does them. I couldn't figure out why she chose walking around Europe over meeting up with her boyfriend as she was supposed to. And then she comes home and boom, she's divorced. I'm sorry, was there a marriage in there that you want to tell us about? The stories seem to skip around and I really lost the point of why we were hearing about them.
I'd love to read more from this author, I just hope she synthesizes it better.
Book Review: Not what I thought it was going to be
Summary: 2 Stars
I thought this book was going to be about a girl who gave up her baby. That storyline constituted about 1% of the book. It was completely underdeveloped. I really struggled to get through this book with all it's random side stories. The description of this book on the cover and on Amazon is really misleading. I wouldn't recommend this book.Book Review: Could not get into this book.
Summary: 2 Stars
Did not like it. Writer seems to bounce from story to story. I could not really get into this book and ended up reading two other books in between. This book will probably end up on my yard sale box:(