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Farm Animals - Activity Book
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Smart Kitty - an educational game for toddlers and children.
Games and Education
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The Room on Rue Amélie
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Tides Planner
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Essential TIDES tool for sailors, divers, canoeists, fishermen, surfers, swimmers, photographers and...
Children's Bible Daily Prayers for Family & School
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Children's Prayer is an app for Christian families, teachers and catechists with kids of all ages....
Bible Scholar Interactive
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Looking for the Outsider: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
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The Outsider is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in...
IRIScan to Word
Business and Productivity
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IRIScan to Word turns your iPhone & iPad into a scanner! Scan paper documents using the native...
I had read positive reviews of this book in several places and decided to give it a try. It was slow going at first, and I almost set it aside in exchange for some books that interested me more. I won't lie - I wish I had. There's just something about this book that irritated me to no end. It's true that Anna is not a particularly likable character - she cheats on her husband and doesn't seem to give much to her children - but that's not exactly it. I almost wish the book had started earlier in Anna's life, so we could potentially understand why she'd become this unstable, depressed housewife, or hausfrau, as our title indicates. We're told she hates living in Switzerland, but is that really it? She's surrounded by a stock of predictable characters - her callous husband, her socialite friend, her oblivious lovers... no one in the novel seems like a fully-formed character and, as such, I had trouble really caring about what happens to them. I probably felt the worst for Anna's three kids.
There were definitely parts that hurt me to read, but overall, the book seemed flat and pointless. The ending irritated me. I'd give it a 2.5 stars overall, but still - rather than having sympathy for Anna - I found myself annoyed with her and the entire book.