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This book is told from the perspective of Paul as an adult, looking back on his youth growing up in Marias Coulee and attending a one-room schoolhouse. The plot ambles along, rather than charges, but the characters come to life and the story is well written. If you're a person who appreciates a well-worded and clever phrase, you will love this book because it's chock full of them. This book felt like an antidote to the crazy, overbooked, super-speed pace of my life.
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Our PAGES (Prose-Adoring Girls' Enlightenment Society) Reading Group read and discussed The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. We absolutely recommend it to book clubs for a very delightful read and a lively, interesting discussion about life in the early 20th century West, one-room school education, and the details of the book, itself. We rate this book 4.5 stars.
A couple of things that may not have come out in the published discussion questions and elsewhere in these reviews:
Did you notice the possible similarities in the two brothers, Paul and Damon, and in Morrie and Casper?
Also, we all felt rather melancholy at the end of this book about the loss of that way of life and the one-room school education. In searching the internet we found that, at the time of the setting of this book, there were about 250,000 one-room schools in the United States. Today, there are fewer than 400. But, the fact that there are some left helped to lift our spirits. Maybe we'll have a reading group outing and go visit a few!
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This is a wonderful story, with fully realized characters. The plot is gentle but believable, with enough progression to make it an interesting read. If you loved "Little Heathens", you will love this.
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Nice read - i.e. What's not to like? There wasn't any conflict, crisis or problem resolution. Just a nice read.
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This is the first novel I have read by Ivan Doig, but it won't be the last. I feel as though I have found literary gold, and just in time for the long winter reading-season; I couldn't be happier.
I won't go into the plot, as others have done a wonderful job there. I will say that this was a refreshing change from some of the books I had been reading and I am looking forward to my next Ivan Doig novel.
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