I didn't care for the story or the narrator. The narrator had a monotone that didn't sit well with me. The story was okay, nothing earth shattering.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* different and odd but not bad and would read again

Since this audiobook is only one hour long, I don’t have much to say about it. Louise Glück reads her own work and her voice is warm and comforting. The story doesn’t really have a plot. It’s more like a journal entry about what might be going through a baby’s mind. It’s drifty, dreamy and pleasant in a lullaby sort of way.

I wanted to try reading something completely different from my usual genres of thrillers, mystery, and horror, so I requested this book. I recognized the author’s name from her having won a Pulitzer Prize and having been the Poet Laureate of the USA.

A big thank you to the author, Netgalley, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, for the free audiobook of Marigold and Rose in exchange for my honest review.

What a lovely surprise. I found this charming little story incredibly touching. Listening to the audiobook, narrated by the author, transported me back to the days of cuddling in a big chair with my grandmother as she told me stories to pass the afternoon. I yearned to call her and share the story of Marigold and Rose - she would have loved it.

I’m racking my brain to find a way to incorporate the book into my classroom. The perspective is interesting, the word choice is precise, and the emotions evoked are honest and true. I’ll find something, for sure.

Marigold and Rose: A Fiction by Louise Glück is my first read by her. I listened to the audiobook narrated by the author and she was great! It’s a story about twin babies in their first year of life and explores their differences. It was an interesting and unique perspective for sure. This is a short book about 1 hour so I actually listened to it twice before writing this review and my thoughts stayed the same. It was good but not a fave. I’m still interested to read her poetry one day.
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Thank you to Macmillan Audio via NetGalley for my ALC!

Clever and quiet, a brief meditation on infancy. It's hard to say much more than this without sapping some of the magic out of the book, But probing the inner mind of 1 year old works remarkably well.

Marigold and Rose was a quick, 1 hour audiobook that was very enjoyable. I really liked the perspective from each baby, and how different each was from one another. It was pretty insightful to other areas of life.