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Review Date: 6/21/2006
I never knew the American Revolution was like this. Everything you never learned in school or from tv. Excellent read!
Review Date: 1/6/2017
Imaginative and thought-provoking. While others may have found it less so, I enjoyed it for being so different. One line stood out for me in this book: "Missing can make a day take forever to end; remembering, though, can make it fly." If I had one suggestion to improve it, it would have been that the last part of the book which takes place above-ground I would have wished took up the whole of the last half the book instead of a smaller segment.
Review Date: 9/30/2006
Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish--Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. A powerful memoir. Two sisters piece together the painful story.
Review Date: 5/10/2019
While set with a few fictional characters, many were real women heroes in a network of spies in World War I. This combination of historical fact with some fiction makes the book very readable, and interesting. A good balance and a nice read.
Review Date: 12/23/2020
Something must have been lost in the translation.
Review Date: 9/17/2010
Beautiful book--the sequel is good too. I put it on my keeper shelf.
Review Date: 9/21/2018
Helpful Score: 1
There's nobody like Wallace Stegner who can write so vividly and well from the heart, allowing such vulnerability that we the readers are taken right into his heart as he describes his emotions. His prose is as always, just beautiful. Cover said 'will hold any reader to its last haunting page'--that was true.
Review Date: 12/22/2011
Just damn FINE writing--what a journey inside this man's mind. I loved this book.
Review Date: 11/16/2013
I usually avoid all books recommended by Oprah or about dysfunctional families; I found the main character likable and the book not great, but okay for a cold winter night.
Review Date: 6/24/2019
Well worth reading! It's on my keeper shelf.
Review Date: 2/7/2016
Really? It started out beautifully written and continued to interest me all the way to the 'almost end.' Then it becomes bizarre, unbelievable and loses all the good writing of the other 2/3..just a mishmash of 'oh here's the answer to the mystery'--oh no I thought of a better one, here's answer #2--oh no? well...here's....
Review Date: 3/30/2007
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Selected Best Book of the Year
Winner National Book Critics Circle Award
Selected Best Book of the Year
Winner National Book Critics Circle Award
Review Date: 4/28/2007
New York Times Editors' Choice for the Year
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
Win of the Pen West Creative Nonfiction Award
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
Win of the Pen West Creative Nonfiction Award
Review Date: 6/21/2006
Helpful Score: 2
I admired and like Barbara Bush and I liked her even more after reading her memoir. She wrote it herself and it's a beautiful reflection of her personality and the way she thinks. "Known for her wit, honesty and compassion, Barbara Bush, in this fascinating autobiograhy candidly talks about her life. Warm, funny and touching.
Review Date: 6/30/2024
Took me years to get around to reading, but this is a beautiful, very well-written book. I highly recommend it. The storyline is plausible and interesting, and the writing is top notch.
Review Date: 6/15/2017
Slow, boring, schmaltzy...felt like it was written for middle school.
Review Date: 7/8/2021
I don't really know how I feel about this book--not my typical type read (fantasy). I did find that the story kept me going because I wanted to know what ended up happening, but at the end I wasn't interested enough to want to read the next two books in the trilogy.
Review Date: 12/7/2019
It's a great book once you get over your initial thinking that it will be some book about ice hockey in a small town that overcomes big obstacles. It isn't. It's so much more and luckily you 'get it' close to the beginning. I'm glad I read it. Great characters, all believable, good life lessons, much wisdom.
Review Date: 3/30/2015
Complicated, complicated. Not at all about a spelling bee. About a family that singularly and in tandem, falls apart. Well-written.
Review Date: 4/12/2018
Decidedly boring and predictable. 85% of book repeating leading up to 15% ending.
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