For today’s book review I decided I would look through the shelves of Packrat Annie’s and pick a book to read and review just for that purpose.
The book I chose was A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. I found that I really did enjoy this book.
It is Lewyka’s first book and I will say she did a good job of keeping me interested and eager to find out what happens.
It is about an elderly man who decides to marry a much younger woman and how his family feels about it as well as how he ends up feeling about it.
I really liked how the mans daughters were brought into it because it made me think about how we all do start sticking our noses into our parents lives, most often out of love but it still could be considered snooping.
This book could have been written in a heartbreaking way because of all of the family history that was brought into it, but instead it was actually quite amusing and factual.
Interwoven through this story is the old mans book that he is writing on the history of tractors which actually ends up being quite interesting as well. So, even though I really had no idea about this book I found that I liked it and would happily recommend it.
-Kristy Chapman, Packrat Annie’s
