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After way too many years of quietly enduring her husband’s deadly abuse, something inside Rose Daniels convinces her that it’s time to leave –- to walk out the door with nothing but her purse, the clothes she’s wearing, and her husband Norman’s bank card. To go as far away as possible.
Rosie gets on a bus and goes to a far-away city, where a kind man at the bus station directs her to a local women’s shelter. There, Rosie starts her new life as Rosie McClendon. One day, she walks into a pawn shop in an attempt to sell the engagement ring that she discovers is worthless -– and her life changes once again. As she walks through the store, she spots a painting that she knows she must have. She meets a man who changes her image of men. And she gets a job that gives her freedom.
While Rosie is starting her new life, Norman refuses to give up on his old life, and he sets out in search of his wayward wife, not caring what he has to do to find Rosie and punish her one last time.
Rose Madder definitely isn’t on my list of my favorite Stephen King novels. While the story was often a page-turner, it was just a little too real and too gruesome for me. In this novel, King puts his standard eerie supernatural themes in the passenger’s seat and lets the real-life horrors get behind the wheel. There was just something about Rose Madder that made my stomach turn just a little too much. Maybe it was just the voice in my head that reminded me that situations like Rosie’s really do happen. Rose Madder isn’t an escaping-reality story. It’s more of a slap-in-the-face kind of story. And while it’s a good story, it’s not what King does best.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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