Good stuff

Kansas in the '30s battling dust and depression. Laura McNeal writes beautifully about the love of Aldine, a Scottish immigrant for a married man. A moving and touching love story, of home and longing. Enjoyable.

This was much more sad than I'd anticipated. It got me down in the dumps every time I read it. The story telling part is done well. The storyline is what was a miss for me.

I was interested in the era and the setting - Kansas in the 1930's. There were Mormons, farmers, Scottish people. Quite a cast of characters but who all kind of let me down along the way.

If you appreciate an epilogue ( I do! ) you'll appreciate this one.

“That’s why we built the Practice House. So many girls now are not learning what they need to learn at home."

"The Practice House had been on Charlotte’s tour of the high school: a cute little cottage at the top of a hill where girls could learn to dust and iron and mop. Charlotte had been incredulous at the time; what were the girls doing at home, then, she wanted to know? Did they all have servants, or were they just slow learners, or what? It was the craziest idea she’d ever heard, like building a barn at the school and filling it with cows."

"The Practice House" as a title is an interesting one--what's the correlation between it and the centering of the novel on adultery? But anyway--Just an ok read for me as, I did not like the main characters nor did I find any sympathy in their situation.

Another Kindle first book but this one was much better than some of the others I have been reading. I generally enjoyed the book and I think it was well-written with a decent plot and characters. I did like the first half better than the second as others have noted as well. The first really focused on Aldine with the Price family being somewhat secondary. And the author's ability to describe the dust bowl and the depression during that time was the highlight of the book for me -- I could almost feel the dryness, the dust. In the second part of the book, she switches over to CA and to the rest of the Price family -- and I didn't find any of those characters (except maybe Neva) very strong or interesting. The end tidied everything up (almost) into a neat package and I was not disappointed.

It won't go on an all-time favorites list nor will it be one that I would read again. But it's a light, entertaining read.

It was a Kindle first read a few years back. Waiting years to read a book is usually a bad sign for me... The book started out interesting. Second half of the novel, I began to hate nearly every character. Then I began to hate myself for not stopping.

Easily could be 4.5 stars. This was an excellent read! Great and satisfying ending! The whole story was great and satisfying.