Reviews for Mail

The average rating for Mail based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-03-21 00:00:00 Amy Millman "I once sent an agent half a novel and a few stories that, I explained, I wasn't sure about. "If the author doesn't love her work", the agent wrote back, "why should an agent even want to look at it ?" I almost gave up on this one, on more than one occasion. If a charming romance about a mailman is what you're shopping for, I'd choose something else. What we have here is a small horde of quite real, and as a result often unlikeable, people. At times, I found these interactions insightful. At others, unbearable. A good book for thinking, a horrible book for relaxing, and I don't know if the thinking was really worth it.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-09-14 00:00:00 Matthew Barton I really loved this novel, much like I loved How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life , which I read first. Having lived in Cambridge for 2+ years, I think that Medwed incorporates the city as part of the character, but somehow she does it better than other authors I've read in the past (like Jennifer Haigh, for example). You get a sense that Medwed's writing actually breathes authenticity. Moreover, her characters are likeable, funny, complex and real. Her literary allusions are not meant to be showy or over-the-top, but really add to the meat of the story. The ending might have been a little too tied together for me, but it's fine--I thought it was cute, and it definitely made me LAUGH.