On Goodreads, I gave this book a 3. Part of me says, who am I to give this a 3?! It's a classic that many people love. I didn't really love it. However, I also didn't hate it. I feel like it is one of those books that I would need to read again and again and discuss with other people who really gain a good appreciation for it. It rambled and I found it hard to follow. There were a ton of characters in the book and I had a hard time keeping them all straight.
I read this with my book club and the meeting was last night. After discussing it, I did find more reasons to appreciate it.
Favorite quotes:
p. 176 And when she was through, he looked down at her with his face slightly wry and ever so tender. What did you expect? You don't expect to be taken seriously, do you? You're only a schoolteacher. You're not the mayor, the banker, a businessman; you're not the wife even of a property owner. What you should do is pick a man of weight in town, marry him, then go to work.
Goodreads says:
When W.O. Mitchell died in 1998 he was described as “Canada's best-loved writer.” Every commentator agreed that his best – and his best-loved – book was Who Has Seen the Wind. Since it was first published in 1947, this book has sold almost a million copies in Canada.
As we enter the world of four-year-old Brian O’Connal, his father the druggist, his Uncle Sean, his mother, and his formidable Scotch grandmother (“she belshes…a lot”), it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary book. As we watch Brian grow up, the prairie and its surprising inhabitants like the Ben and Saint Sammy – and the rich variety of small-town characters – become unforgettable. This book will be a delightful surprise for all those who are aware of it, but have never quite got around to reading it, till now.
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