RE: Bookclub: The discussion of Emotional Geology (contains spoilers)
1. The past
2. The present
3. Rose's p.o.v
4. The 3rd person narrator's p.o.v.
And that's why it's so confusing and we kept it all in one font!
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In that case I would say there are four perspectives! 1. The past 2. The present 3. Rose's p.o.v 4. The 3rd person narrator's p.o.v. And that's why it's so confusing and we kept it all in one font!
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RE: Bookclub: The discussion of Emotional Geology (contains spoilers)I found Roses obssesion with Gavin a bit hard to accept, I mean he slept with her daughter, would you really obssess over someone who did that, or would you want to kill them yourself? The parts about Gavin going off to climb despite Rose begging him not to, struck me as being written from first hand experience (I might be wrong). All in all I am really glad I read this, I will definately be getting some more of Linda's books in the future |
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RE: Bookclub: The discussion of Emotional Geology (contains spoilers)(27 Mar 2012 03:39 PM)Pete1974 Wrote: I have to say that when this book won I was a bit disappointed, it didn't sound like my sort of book at all and I was resigned to forcing my way through it so I could make some comments on it. How wrong was I, I really enjoyed it. For me it was nice to read about believable characters slowly coming to terms with their past and starting to make some sort of life for themselves. I loved the passion both Rose and Calum had for their art, the description of Roses fabric art made me want to see and touch them for myself. Thanks Pete for your kind words. I was very pleased to hear you enjoyed it, especially as it wasn't really your sort of book! I was also pleased that the rows about Gavin's climbing obsession rang true, but they weren't autobiographical. I did have a relationship with a climber, but his climbing days were over when I knew him. I did a lot of background reading about climbing and had been something of an armchair climber myself for years before I wrote the novel. The conflict between climbers and their partners over issues like risk and safety is well (& painfully) documented. To take up one of the points you raise... Rose did want to kill Gavin. She talks about in Ch 12 with Calum: "I think if there’d been a gun or a knife on the bedside table, or if I'd thought I was strong enough to strangle him, I'd have done it. But I would have had to go downstairs to the kitchen to get a knife. And I couldn't move. I tried... I tried to walk away from him but I couldn't. I just stood there, weeping, listening to all the poison... And I didn't know if I was crying for her or for me." "You threw him out?" "Didn't have to. He started to pack his things then and there. Then apparently I went and walked through the French windows… I don’t really remember much about that… While I was in hospital he cleared all his stuff out." I think Rose turned her anger against herself. (Women often do that - self harm, over-eat, starve themselves - rather than vent their anger on the person who is the source of that anger.) As for Rose continuing to obsess about Gavin... remember that Rose & Gavin were together as a co-habiting couple for 5 years before he slept with Megan. He had been a surrogate parent to Megan and they'd been to hell & back over some of the dangerous climbs he'd done. You can't just wipe out 5 years of loving someone passionately. (But Rose tries.) She is completely disgusted with Gavin and feels betrayed, but she didn't get any closure. They didn't ever talk things over. She ended up in hospital and he moved out. What I was trying to do in EMOTIONAL GEOLOGY was examine different kinds of love, eg the friendship between Calum and Rose which becomes a passionate attraction, also the sexual obsession which is what Rose experienced with Gavin. I think there was also a kind of addiction there - not to sex, but to "living on the edge", as I think couples do if one of them is engaged in a very dangerous activity. (I wrote about this again in more detail in UNTYING THE KNOT in which the hero is divorced and ex-military bomb squad.) Long & dangerous separations make for powerfully emotional reunions. Rejoicing that someone is alive is a big high. I was trying to show that Gavin was addicted to climbing and Rose was addicted to Gavin. |
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