“Always,” she said.”īeef & Barley Stew “Sandy and Jocelyn had always run the house with complete autonomy. “Well,” Maeve said, “we were always happy when she came home.” Apricot Thumbprints “Jocelyn shrugged and Sandy reached down for the thumb-print cookie with the round spot of apricot jam. Is there a home here that lines up with your mental picture? I’d love to know! Number 3 is my pick.Ĭlick on the photos to go to the recipes. So off to Shutterstock I went to compile these 9 photos of Dutch houses. If you’ve read The Dutch House, did you picture what the mansion looked like in your head? I was so very curious and disappointed that it wasn’t based on a real building. Because it had to exist in the reader’s imagination.” Ann Patchett, interview with Waterstones. “I didn’t want a house on the cover, or any element of a house, a door, a window, nothing.She disliked the first version so much that she threw it away. Patchett wrote two versions of The Dutch House.Also, there were some delectable dishes that I felt compelled to recreate. They weren’t descriptive events in the book, but they had meaning or made a point. If it wasn’t for Tom Hanks and the fact that this was a Buddy Read, The Dutch House could easily have been a DNF for me.įood Rating: 3/5 The Dutch house had passing mentions of food. I loved his sarcastic inflections and lighthearted Chapter announcements. His range of emotion filled this book with the life it lacked without narration. I am a major fan! That being said, Tom Hanks made this book for me. This doesn’t mean I didn’t like the book as a whole! I just didn’t “love” love it- but you might!Īudiobook Performance: 5/5 Full disclosure: I adore Tom Hanks. I had unanswered questions and disliked some of the characters. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen. I wasn’t compelled to read it at every possible moment. Overall, the DH felt like such a slow read to me. (I miss you Crawdads!) Also, I couldn’t attach to the characters which is usually very easy for this empath. The lives of Danny and Maeve built a compelling story but I didn’t keep-walking-in-the-rainstorm-because-I-couldn’t-stop-listening ”love” it. I found myself thinking about parts of this book while doing dishes or rocking my baby to sleep.

I could feel the moods that settled over different scenes. A moving autobiographical fiction novel, The Dutch House focuses on the relationship between two siblings, Danny and Maeve Conroy. This was my very first Ann Patchett novel and I wanted to LOVE it!! It was beautifully written.

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