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Breathing Lessons

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
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Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets, and reckonings.

Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland, to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials, and its triumphs - through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other's faults with patience and affection.

Where Maggie is quirky, lovable, and mischievous, Ira is practical, methodical, and mired in reason.

What begins as a day trip becomes a revelatory and unexpected journey, as Ira and Maggie rediscover the strength of their bond and the joy of having somebody with whom to share the ride, bumps and all.

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The whole book takes place over one day with flashbacks not so seamlessly thrown into it. Couldn’t finish the book, felt like I was wasting my time. Characters are quite the characters indeed. Prepare to listen to endless bickering haha

Slow and boring

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probably was more relevant years ago but i found it a little boring and too many irritating characters

it was a slow read

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Her style was like rambling on and on. But good still. 1st one of her books I have tried

Got a bit boring.

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Enjoying Delia’s spunk and growth in Tyler’s very good Ladder of Years, I went on to this book wanting more of Tyler’s calm, quirky commentary.

Unfortunately, this book was a bit too much the same without brave Delia.

Both women had contentious, rather supercilious husbands, and their escapes were too similar. I had to jump ship.

I well may have chosen the worse two books in a row, and I just didn’t like the narration.
Your s truly, Pissy Me in this case

It was my timing I think.

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Anyone can relate to the sentiments in this book, Anne Tyler’s work with character development is astounding.

Truth

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“Breathing Lessons” was a disappointing Anne Tyler reading excursion. The story and the people were extremely tedious and the entire books was more a downer than I was looking for. This read was in a different direction then the two previous Anne Tyler books I have recently read. I should have quit listening but I spent money for the book and felt I should endure to the end. More than likely this will be then end of my reading Anne Tyler and I will begin, again, my search for some light, well written upbeat leisure reading. Experienced as an Audio book.

A Tedious Optimistic Heroine

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Narrator is excellent, as is the story. The characters are authentic and reflective of long marriages and trivial and not so trivial issues. Maggie is relentless as she obliterates boundaries in attempting to control her world.

day in the life

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Anne Tyler has a craft, an art, a gift, whereby she can transcribe the musings from her heart and mind onto the page. She is a keen beholder of the human condition, and she stuffs each of her characters with an assortment of traits: some good, some bad, some praiseworthy, some annoying, and some destructive. No matter the amalgamation, it all manages to meld into believable, yet quirky characters, who are often stuck in circumstances of their own making, whether they want to admit it. Some of Tyler's characters learn from their mistakes, while others obliviously march-on through life without changing one bit.

Upon finishing the novel, it will be clear to the reader why “Breathing Lessons” has managed to win all the accolades it has earned.

This novel has earned all the recognition ---

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Sad and Beautiful. Anne Tyler is a marvel. Love her books. This is one of the best.

Beautiful

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I am always on the lookout for an author who can keep me intrigued throughout the story. Ann Tyler can do that! Breathing Lessons did not disappoint!

Holds my attention-

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