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Review Date: 1/9/2012
I really enjoyed this book -- it's a true story of a slave woman and her descendants through freedom and how they survived once slavery was abolished.
Review Date: 5/4/2010
True Harry Bosch all the way! Still bold, still sassy.
Review Date: 9/22/2010
This was a good read. Certainly a different twist on the Cinderella story!
Review Date: 6/20/2013
Loved this book. Maybe I'd gotten into a rut with too many dramas lately, but this was light, offbeat, irreverent and refreshing. My knowledge of the gods was negligible, but they were indeed behaving badly and made for a fun book. My favorite line was in the last few pages of the book. I can't repeat it here as it contains a naughty word, but I laughed out loud at it!
Review Date: 8/17/2011
While this was a very good read, it reminded me a lot of Sister's Keeper.
Review Date: 4/3/2010
I love Cecelia Ahern's books and this was no exception. I found the unusual format to be very interesting. A good read.
Review Date: 1/22/2013
Helpful Score: 2
What a beautiful book! The first line on the back cover is "The powerful ..." and that describes the book perfectly. Nurse Myra Lipinski is a lonely spinster at 51, when her high school love, Chip Reardon, re-enters her life. Chip is dying of brain cancer and chooses to spend his last days with Myra. As he is dying, he teaches Myra everything about living.
Review Date: 4/7/2010
Excellent story by Jodi Picoult, as usual. Although I sometimes get a little tired of the absolute stoicism of her characters, her books always get my mind working again.
Review Date: 8/2/2010
Loved this book...but then, I'm a fan of "The Mercy of Thin Air," and "Lovely Bones." A tale told from the other side.
Review Date: 9/22/2010
This was a good read. Plenty of plot twists and turns to keep it going.
Review Date: 9/23/2011
This book was even better than the Kite Runner in my opinion. A story of two women, one very strong and the other very weak, and how their lives intersected.
Review Date: 3/26/2017
Excellent writing with great flow. While I have read many books along these lines, none in the context of LGBT and AIDS. Very enlightening. The characters were well defined (I especially enjoyed Libby). The only downside was the ending -- in my opinion, there was none.
Review Date: 10/20/2011
While the writing in this book is somewhat lacking in description (a first or only book perhaps?), it tells an excellent story. Only because the book is staged in New Zealand, a country I know nothing about, I found I wanted more description. It's a short book, but long on story!
Review Date: 1/6/2012
Helpful Score: 1
This is the story of a widower raising his 3 sons, struggling mightily to cook and feed them in rural Montana in the early 1900s. In breezes their new housekeeper, Rose, who can't cook but doesn't bite. The one-room schoolhouse and life therein plays a big part of this story. A very good read.
Review Date: 12/20/2011
Helpful Score: 2
Loved this book. It kept me guessing all the way through and, a week later, I find the ending randomly popping into my head.
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