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Colleen F. (Carrollton, TX)
Meet Me at the Museum
I had the privilege to read Meet me at the Museum. I really did enjoy this book. At first when I started reading it, I must admit I was a little bored with it. I didn't really understand where the writer was going with this story, but as I continued to read it I grew to love it even more. The way the story started with a letter to a professor regarding the exhibit of the Tollund Man. I have never heard of this before, but I was very intrigued to learn more about him. I feel like this book would appeal to anyone who loves history, museums, or someone who loves books in general. This book has something for everyone I feel. I haven't read anything like this book before.
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Elyse G. (Creswell, OR)
Not Sorry I Read it
I have to say, if I hadn't agreed to review this book, I wouldn't have read beyond 20 pages. Though the epistolary style is not my favorite, I have enjoyed other books written this way.
Waiting at the Museum has as it's premise a backstory that just barely serves to give the characters reasons to begin writing to each other, though it is loneliness that keeps the correspondence going. Unfortunately, the author continues with this story(discovery of the Tollund Man) though it does nothing for the plot.
The book gets better as the letters get more personal and we begin to see the characters more fully. There is the occasional profound observation or compelling question. Also, a telling of the Ragman story serves as an allegory for the book - the characters are sharing pieces of each other which fill a need in each.
Eventually the letters begin to sound more and more like love letters, though towards the end the male writer pre-emptively denies such love. the end came across as a bit flat, which disappointed me, as a good ending will often change my opinion of an entire book.
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Melinda H. (Cornelius, NC)
enjoyable
Meet Me at the Museum is an enjoyable exchange of letters between two middle-aged people who start out as strangers and gradually progress into a powerful friendship. At times, the story is very informative about primitive peoples and their culture. At other times, quite relevant and current. Although there is not much movement in the story, I very much enjoyed getting to know the characters and their vastly different lives.
I love the format of the writing - the exchange of letters has had me since reading Jane Austen and Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. As this is Anne Youngson's debut novel, I trust that the next will be that much more engaging - Meet Me at the Museum was certainly gaining its stride by the conclusion.
I do have to say that I adored the conclusion. I love it when an author provides enough to allow me to continue to consider the possibilities, but not so much as to tie it all up in a tidy bow.
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Mary A. (Columbus, OH)
Meet Me at the Museum by Anna Youngston
I hesitate to send this review because it is so negative. Meet Me at the Museum does not compare favorably to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Mary Ann Shaffer which thoroughly enjoyed.
I found the book to be tiresome, contrived and wordy. The pace was uneven. It began with a letter written by an English Farmer's wife, Tina Hopgood, written to Silkeborg Museum's curator, Kristian Larson. Tina wanted to know about the Tollund Man and the Bog people she had learned about in school. This correspondence evolved into a sharing of thoughts and confidences about their lives, and discovering they are two lonely people who have found each other. I did not like any of the characters.
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