The Love of My Youth

The Love of My Youth by Mary Gordon

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


The title intrigued me and the review in the NY Times was good, so I choose this as the first book to read on my iPad 2. I kept reading this plodding novel because I thought it might be that I didn't have a physical book in my hand. The plot idea and setting were solid--Rome 40 years later, when two HS-college sweethearts meet up again. And that is all that interested me as the beginning for the book because the characters seemed bored with each other, then and now.



The dialogue was stiff and stilted. How could they have been that interested in each other when they were teenagers? They seemed tired and pedantic even then. And all that did was pull forward to the current setting of the novel.



I kept reading because I like the back story of one of the set the parents Rose and Sav, and found the piano teacher interesting but other than that. from start to finish this was not the book for me to spend my time reading.