Christina mats a biography of alberta

Geez! I was fully prepared to give this one a full five stars and sing it's praises with my highest recommendation until I got to the last third of the book, when H.G. Wells decided to muck up a good thing by being the most "Wellsian" he could be. Wells is one of those writers that I simultaneously love and hate.

There is no questioning the man's sheer genius.

Christina Alberta's Father by H.G. Wells - Goodreads

But he was insufferably inflicted with an ego of planetary proportions to match his great intellect. "Christina Alberta's Father" is a perfect example of how these two sides of the famous author clash in his writing.

For most of this novel, Wells had crafted a beautifully touching, tastefully hilarious, infinitely quotable, and delightfully sweet drama between a daughter and her daddy.

Both of them are two peas in a pod, living in kind of a dream world as their own realities are too confusing. For the father, his life by middle-age is nothing like he may have fancied as a youth. He i Christina Alberta's Father by H. G. Wells - Barnes & Noble XEWUL