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One of my constant worries as a reader is that a beloved author will disappoint. It is especially true when the beloved author hasn’t published anything in a long, long time. Jill McCorkle is one such author for me and I must say that I was very, very worried that her new book, Life After Life, would be a disappointment. Happily, I will tell you that this did not happen.Life After Life takes place in a nursing home. All the characters live in the nursing home or work in the nursing home or have
I liked this more until the end. There are several interesting storylines though one is maddenly predictable (Rachel & Stanley). There are some complex characters, especially Joanna who turns her life around after hitting bottom and becomes a hospice worker. Kendra, on the other hand is purely, inexplicably evil and makes life miserable for her tragically sad daughter who finds a second home at Pine Haven. The men fare the worst in this novel, from Ned who can't recover from losing his unborn ch...
After listening to Jill McCorkle's talk at a Booktopia Petosky, MI I had to move Life after Life up on my list. Hearing McCorkle speak about her intentions gave me a better understanding of where she was coming from. Forgive me if these are not quite what she said - It ain't over til it's over, that drama and humor tread a thin line, and that there can be a celebration of life even with the bleakest of topics - piqued my interest and got me reading. I have mentioned before that as I get older an...
My first instinct when I got to the end of this book was to throw it across the room. But since I read a digital ARC, I thought better of it. I wanted to throw the book, not my iPad. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED this book. McCorkle made me feel real emotions. REAL, ya'll. While the events of the book only cover a couple of days, you get each characters story. You love some, you despise some, and some you want to hug. And in the end you realize that life isn't always easy, but it goes on. We lose
I suspect Jill McCorkle chose the title Life After Life to hint that there can be new life even after one’s family and professional responsibilities have ended, but for me “life after life” described the (too?) many people we meet in this somewhat rambling and uneven novel. After reading 60 pages I needed to return to the beginning to create a who’s who list (shades of Russian novels, but this is hardly Tolstoy). I then discovered I hadn’t forgotten who certain people were, but that a number of
I loved the first 3/4 of this book, and was planning on rating the book with 4 stars. The characters were so well developed and interesting, even the minor characters. I love how she had different points of view from the same event and the death of the characters. Wonderful. Then I read the last 1/4. It was abrupt and seemed like the author did not know how to end the book. After the characters were so well developed, I had trouble seeing certain events occurring. Why would CJ keep tolerating An...
I fell in love with Jill McCorkle when I read The Cheerleader in 1984 and have owned every book since. While her short story collections are my favorites of their genre, I always believed I could never love another novel as much as Tending to Virginia, which I swore she'd stolen from characters in my immediate family and from feelings I'd harbored that I'd never divulged to a soul. But it's 5 a.m. and I just finished Life After Life, and this is surely my "new" favorite novel of all time.Worried...
