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The Red Address Book
The Red Address Book
Author: Sofia Lundberg, Alice Menzies (Translator)
Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny -- her American grandniece, and her only relative -- give her great joy and remind her of her own youth. — When Doris was a girl, she was given an address book by her father, and ever since she has carefully documen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781328473011
ISBN-10: 1328473015
Publication Date: 1/15/2019
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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pj-s-bookcorner avatar reviewed The Red Address Book on + 885 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Doris is nearing the end of her life (in her 90's). After a fall puts her in the hospital, her niece Jenny comes from the US to Sweden to be with her and uncovers the memoir that Doris has been writing for her. As a child, her father had given her a red address book so she could chronicle the people she met in her life. Chapters focus on some of the individuals and her struggle to survive on her own. Wonderful, nostalgic read!
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Helpful Score: 1
If I could give this 3 1/2 stars on goodreads I would. There was just a bit missing. Not sure what. I felt it got slow, it was trying to do too much in a relatively short amount of pages. But, then I did enjoy the sentiment. The hardships both Doris and Jenny have gone through in their lives. They have both been through so so much and still love and want to be loved.
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Helpful Score: 1
a 96 year old woman in Sweden tells her life story and the story of people who had an impact in her life to her great-niece in California, first via skype and in writing, later in person when her great-niece comes to the hospital while she is dying. She worked as a live mannequin/model in Paris before WWII and met the love of her life there. They never reconnected but through an internet search her great-niece had them skype together moments before they both died. They never stopped thinking about each other. This idea of true love, never ending love is a theme throughout the book but for me fell just a little short and we don't see enough of the great-niece's life. Good book, but a little slow in parts. Lots of detail of her early life and years in Paris, but then everything goes really fast and many years are glossed over. As if the author just wanted to be done writing. Seemed uneven and with a rushed ending.
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