I just finished reading Bart Yates’s THE BROTHERS BISHOP. Sad, haunting, very well-written, disturbing, and good.
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I just finished reading Bart Yates’s THE BROTHERS BISHOP. Sad, haunting, very well-written, disturbing, and good.
So does that me I’m gonna cry while I’m reading it? Because if I wanted to cry, I could just enter another dog show.
Yeah, you’ll probably cry. Or maybe not. I only cried a little. Not because it wasn’t sad. Maybe because some tears are more in the heart than in the eyes. If that makes sense.
I just finished reading the book. I absolutely agree with everything you said about it. Definitely not the feel good novel of the summer (not that I thought that it was going to be), but so well-written that I just had to keep reading to the end.
Did you cry? Did it make your heart hurt? Did you know that ending was inevitable–had you picked up the foreshadowing of it? You’re the only person I know who’s read it, so I’m hounding you!
Yes, yes, and yes. I did cry, the tears running down your face as you continue to read crying, not the I’ve got to stop because I’m sobbing too hard crying. Even though I knew it was fiction, it still made me think the ‘if only’s’ (and then there wouldn’t have been a story ‘if only’ certain things hadn’t happened). I was kind of bothered by the incest aspect, but he did address it to my satisfaction by the end. I guess I did pick up the forshadowing of the ending. It made me kind of think of that Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze movie Point Break(?) where Patrick drowns himself in the end. Having come to know the characters, it seemed to be almost an inevitable ending. I have to say that I enjoyed the book, but I think I like his other one better, just because I’m not much of a sad ending kind of person.