Lady Oracle vs The Stone Diaries: Which Should You Read?

Lady Oracle Margaret Atwood · 1976 ★★★★☆ 3.7 345 pages · ≈ 6 h 23 m · Moderate

A bored wife takes off on a journey of excitement and discovery.

The Stone Diaries Carol Shields · 1993 ★★★★☆ 3.9 361 pages · ≈ 6 h 41 m · Moderate

“MY MOTHER'S NAME WAS MERCY STONE GOODWILL.”

This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world,…