Book 89 of my 2024 Reading Challenge
read from November 24 - 25
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
by J. Ryan Stradal
My Opinion
4 stars
I was able to see this author for the second time at an event in Des Moines, IA and get a signed book. It always adds to the story when I hear an author speak about it but especially in this case when he writes the Midwest life and women so well.
It's silly but it took me out...the wording after a character suffered a miscarriage about everything they'd gone through for this one brief pregnancy implied they'd never had children so when a child was introduced in a flashback I had to do a lot of flipping to make sure I had dates/characters correct. This isn't a criticism of how either scenario, the current one or the tragedy in the past, was handled story-wise but in a situation where there were already multiple POVs and timelines, it added an unnecessary scratch to my brain to have it be the same person.
I really enjoy this writer and will definitely continue supporting anything he puts out in the future.
Quote from the Book
"After all the time and money spent, and procedures they endured, here she was. Not back to where she started, because there's no such thing. Her body would either bear a child or bear a loss. Either way, the space was made."
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