Is there a home here that lines up with your mental picture? I’d love to know! Number 3 is my pick.Ĭlick on the photos to go to the recipes. So off to Shutterstock I went to compile these 9 photos of Dutch houses. If you’ve read The Dutch House, did you picture what the mansion looked like in your head? I was so very curious and disappointed that it wasn’t based on a real building. Because it had to exist in the reader’s imagination.” Ann Patchett, interview with Waterstones.

“I didn’t want a house on the cover, or any element of a house, a door, a window, nothing.

She disliked the first version so much that she threw it away.

Patchett wrote two versions of The Dutch House.

Also, there were some delectable dishes that I felt compelled to recreate. They weren’t descriptive events in the book, but they had meaning or made a point.

If it wasn’t for Tom Hanks and the fact that this was a Buddy Read, The Dutch House could easily have been a DNF for me.įood Rating: 3/5 The Dutch house had passing mentions of food. I loved his sarcastic inflections and lighthearted Chapter announcements. His range of emotion filled this book with the life it lacked without narration. I am a major fan! That being said, Tom Hanks made this book for me. This doesn’t mean I didn’t like the book as a whole! I just didn’t “love” love it- but you might!Īudiobook Performance: 5/5 Full disclosure: I adore Tom Hanks. I had unanswered questions and disliked some of the characters. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen. I wasn’t compelled to read it at every possible moment. Overall, the DH felt like such a slow read to me. (I miss you Crawdads!) Also, I couldn’t attach to the characters which is usually very easy for this empath. The lives of Danny and Maeve built a compelling story but I didn’t keep-walking-in-the-rainstorm-because-I-couldn’t-stop-listening ”love” it.

I found myself thinking about parts of this book while doing dishes or rocking my baby to sleep. I could feel the moods that settled over different scenes. A moving autobiographical fiction novel, The Dutch House focuses on the relationship between two siblings, Danny and Maeve Conroy. This was my very first Ann Patchett novel and I wanted to LOVE it!! It was beautifully written.

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