Goodreads a spool of blue thread5/19/2023 That being said, I do think the book is better for having this section and if it hadn’t been there at all some of the poignancy in the portrayal of an aging Red and Abby as it relates to all of us throughout time would have been lost. I say more bearable because for me this was the least interesting section of the book, perhaps because these characters get less time than the others and are therefore more one dimensional. Because Junior and Linnie Mae were the forebears of characters I already knew so well, this section was much more bearable when it came towards the end of the book than I think it would have been were it at the beginning. I think if this book had been traditionally structured in chronological order and begun with the relationship of Red’s parents in the 1920s I would have found these characters less interesting. To read a spoiler-free discussion of the book, please click here. WARNING: This blog post contains spoilers. Here are some notes from our own book club discussion of Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread. Each month we choose a newly released book that we feel is perfect for a book club.
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