Comments on: His Father’s Son — Chapter 3

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:04:41 +0000

Ha! It’s a blast, isn’t it?

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:01:02 +0000

Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Somehow I doubt this story is going to end in "happily ever after." This seems far more likely.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:09:26 +0000

I've had almost all of the above thoughts while reading this series, especially about not teaching Kareen but expecting her to know and the naivity of Richard. As a quilt maker, I kinda understand Esther's longing to make quilts and thinking about making them often, but putting them away when there was a work to be done. I just hope ther is a really good explanation as to Kareen's background and all the secrecy about her!

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:09:45 +0000

Well the high point of that was the reference to the “sextette from Lucia” which I just had to play–good background music for this story.

Now, if Kareen can avoid going mad, killing Richard, and haunting the family in her bloody gown. Of course, if she can sing like Angela Georghiu, I’ll forgive all.

Wasn’t it unusual in those days for an unmarried woman to receive her endowment? If so, then Duenna’s sitting outside the temple wouldn’t have been that surprising.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:39:52 +0000

Seems to me that Mother Haven and the long suffering Esther must figure that knowing how to do all the household chores are genetically transmitted to women. You’d think they might be a bit more willing to teach someone they can tell knows darn little about all that. If Esther has to look up “tibia” in the dictionary, maybe Kareen might have no idea that beets shouldn’t be peeled, and that yeast starts had to be cultured.

And Richard, her husband, seems to be just as clueless, having married Kareen without really knowing her at all, other than her love for music. No one in the Haven family seems to understand Elder Wirthlin’s “We can’t all be piccolos” talk in conference a few years ago.

Still some elements of weirdness, kind of like watching an Ed Wood movie. You can’t look away, no matter how awful, because you never know how much weirder it can get.

By: E. Wallace

E. Wallace — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:28:58 +0000

Hahaha. I was thinking something along the lines of admitting that a craft you made turned out badly on your mommy blog, but Happy Meals boxes is pretty good.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:24:05 +0000

Ha! In my mother’s generation the disgrace would have been dingy laundry on the line or “ring around the collar.” Today? Hm — maybe having Happy Meals boxes in your trash can?

By: Mommie Dearest

Mommie Dearest — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:21:03 +0000

Curiouser and curiouser. I thought it was odd that her Duenna would leave without a forwarding address. And that she was raised for 17 years and somehow taught to be married in the temple by a woman who sat outside the temple at her wedding.

I believe there are a few plot holes appearing, but the story is engaging enough to keep interest and the plot holes are actually kind of fun to examine.

By: E. Wallace

E. Wallace — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:15:28 +0000

This story is so weird. I think my favorite things about it so far are the phrases randomly put “in quotation marks,” and the obsession with quilts. I also admit to having spent the last 10 minutes thinking about what the modern equivalent of “the disgrace of borrowing ‘a fresh start’” would be…

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:08:57 +0000

Won’t someone please comment on this being a temple wedding? Please?? I mean, can’t you just imagine the recommend interview?

“Do you keep the Word of Wisdom?”

“Yes, yes, whatever. What? Can I play your piano?”