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Title: What was the point?
Review: I'm an avid reader so I don't give bad reviews (like I'm about to give) lightly. I haven't read all the books in the Oprah book club, but I've read a number of them and this is by far the worst selection. Compare this book to greater books like Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, and Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons and you'll see what I mean: negative characters with little or no redeeming qualities in a story that meanders from pointless situation to pointless situation. The only emotion I registered was boredom and I left the book wondering "Why did I bother?". I understand the premise of the title "Songs in Ordinary Time" meaning that we'll look at the smaller more ordinary moments of life and not at great achievements or transcendence. A little hope would have been nice but even that wasn't necessary. Ordinary moments can be illuminating in fiction but that was simply not accomplished in this dull, lifeless novel.
