Juliet Waldron and Marilynne Robinson

Have finished both books for this month. Independent Heart had the fine prose style I have come to expect from J. Waldron. It was good on authentic period detail as well. The ending I thought was a little perfunctory. The book was pretty tongue-in-cheek really not quite as fine as Mozart's Wife her other book.

Housekeeping was fabulously beautiful - every word carefully placed. Central themes from American literature were important in this book - the natural world as a place apart - somewhere to discover a lost innocence from the early days of America