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The Egg and I
Betty MacDonald
George Mann Books, 1992
Wonderful
+ Wake the house up howling with laughter
+ Crack this "Egg"--politically correct tight-asses be damned...
What can you say about a book like this that hasn't already been said! I just love it - having read it firstly many years ago. This is life at its hardest, a struggle to make ends meet in difficult circumstances and a story of bravery and optimism that inspires and reassures us even today when we ...
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The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Eos, 1994
Outstanding Utopian Work of Freedom and Liberty
+ But which is the better world?
+ Overall, solid
+ Anarchy In Outerspace
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Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Scribner, 1996
A walk through old rural FL
+ Fla Stories
+ She Always Makes Me Cry
+ Wonderful FL history
+ A Classic of Regional Writing
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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Vintage, 2004
Masterpiece [25]
+ Morrison's gold
+ perfection!
Morrison's "Song of Solomon" encapsulates her strongest skills into one novel.
The story line is unparalleled - it eclipses even some of her other highly acclaimed pieces like "Sula" or "Beloved." The dialect delivered by the people is equal to that shown in "Jazz" or "Beloved." And, her ...
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She Walks These Hills
Sharyn McCrumb
Signet, 1995
Long Way Home
+ Riveting!
+ Good mystery fiction, like the Tony Hillerman of Appalachia
+ Appalachian Revisionism
+ Likeable Characters
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Pavanne Books)
Hannah Green
Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd, 1986
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The Book of Eve
Constance Beresford-Howe
McClelland & Stewart, 1989
Sometimes the old out-of print books are the most memorable.
+ New take on an old favorite
+ Breaking Free
Constance Beresford-Howe wrote a delightful little book in 1973 called "The Book of Eve". Eve had a comfortable life in the well-to-do English neighborhood in Montreal, as a wife, and a mother of one grown son. On the day she received her first pension check, she walked out of that life to ...
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Excellent Women (Penguin Classics)
Barbara Pym
Penguin Classics, 2006
"Excellent Women" by Barbara Pym
+ My first Pym; I'm hooked
+ Praise and a Warning
Barbara Pym is as subtle and sharp as Jane Austen and gives an understated but accurate portrayal of what life must have been like for the single woman in the 1950's. Gentle humour suffuses the book with the characters springing to life in just a phrase or two. Each chapter ends gently with (what ...
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Little Town on the Prairie (Little House)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
HarperTrophy, 2007
Little House on the Prairie - fun family reading time
+ Still a thing of wonder and beauty years later
+ This series just gets better and better!
+ A good book
+ Parents beware! (sort of)
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The Last of the Wine
Mary Renault
Vintage, 2001
A great book for anyone interested in the Peloponnesian War
+ Normal Young Men in Ancient Greece
+ Perfection
+ Good novel for GLBT young adults.
+ The End of the City...
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton Porter
Norilana Books, 2006
So good my mom had to read it at the same time as me!
+ Serendipitous!
I started reading this book right after I got it.
My mom had looked it over and was wanting to read it too, so we both took turns reading chapters. It was funny because when I was reading, my mom would keep asking when I would be done with that chapter. She did not like waiting in suspence ...
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A Thousand Acres: A Novel
Jane Smiley
Anchor, 2003
Midwestern Drama and Dysfunction...
+ Engrossing and thought provoking read
+ After reading this, I feel better about my own family: )
+ inside the whitewashed farmhouse
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In This House of Brede
Rumer Godden
Loyola Press, 2005
So much to review...
+ A roller coaster of a read
+ Life in monastery
+ a page turne!
+ Great depiction of cloistered life
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The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
A Story of a Woman's Relationship With Her Daughter
+ Great Service!
+ Riveting, inspiring and educational
+ Savory!
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Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon
Delta, 2001
Keeps getting better
+ The adventures of Claire and Jamie continue
+ A Good Second Chapter of the Outlander Series
+ This series is one of the best of all time
+ My favorite in the series
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