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Review Date: 4/21/2014
Helpful Score: 1
Was well written and researched. One wonders how we ever gained our independence, with such a ragtag army and no generals with much if any military experience.
Review Date: 11/7/2012
Helpful Score: 1
Ebershoff uses many styles from letters and journals to tell the story of Brigham Young's "19th" wife, Eliza,tho she was probably a lot higher number as Young didn't count the wives he was no longer having intimate relations with, the barren, and the old wives. Eliza leaves Young and the church to campaign for the banishment of polygamy and the horrible effect on the many wives, children and polygamous men, as well. I learned a lot of history which I enjoyed, but the last 100 pgs dragged so much I struggled for several days to make myself finish it. 'Course I have to read all the prologs, epilogs and footnote information. A worthy read, just for the historical information.
Review Date: 2/21/2014
Helpful Score: 1
I loved this bk, which is a great historical fiction book. To quote another Amazon reader: "This book is vividly written and has complexity to the plot that continues to draw you in right up until the last chapter. The long lasting effects of war on people are brilliantly portrayed in the story. In post war Britain, the couple has every advantage- an intact family, a house, a car, a good job - but the lingering effects of what happened to them during the war destroy their chances to go forward. The son has been deeply influenced by his time in the forests avoiding both Germans and Russians and living off the land. In one scene his father shows him how to collect and save birds eggs and the boy can only think of how he wants to eat the eggs contents as he did so often in the forests. He has a particularly difficult time socializing and entering into normal relationships. It was heartbreaking and at times almost too sad to bear. In the end though this story is a triumph of the human spirit over adversity
Review Date: 5/18/2020
Really a good book about Mexican immigrant family, and their journeys to America. Very moving!Her other book is equally as good. This is the sequel to it.
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie : The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 (Dear America)
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 10/23/2018
This was a good synopsis of the life of one of the Oregon wagon bound settlers, but I was disappointed that it was fictional. Nonetheless,a sweet read for a young person.
Review Date: 1/19/2020
I really enjoyed reading about the fur trappers lives, and the settles account with the Indian. There are great picture too. But I did bog down in the fur trade wars. Read all but the lst 50 pages.
Review Date: 12/26/2020
Wow, what a long read. Over 650 pages of small print but very enlightening as to the divisive wars between the west African countries, their governments and rebels, the battle for souls between the Muslims and the Christians, the role of aid workers, gun smugglers and a lot of violence and grief.
Review Date: 4/8/2021
Very interesting read about a woman who finds out about her hidden Jewish ancestry and what her parents went through during the holocaust, and their pact to keep it secret.
Review Date: 6/12/2014
Helpful Score: 1
I like Sandra Dallas's books, though this one took a while to get into. Not one of her best, in my opinion tho interesting historical info about daily life during the Civil War. Light fare.
Review Date: 3/24/2021
Very well written story about a blind Quaker woman and her kids, a black prize fighter and a Japanese family on a farm in the midwest, fighting against the endemic racism. Very moving!
Review Date: 6/3/2020
Deadpan British humor and a subtle comedyset in a deidely odd and cliquish billage.
Review Date: 12/5/2020
some very interest parts, but overall just pretty strange.
Review Date: 7/3/2017
Winner of the Booker Pulitzer Prize, various other awards, and a NY Times best seller for two and a half years. Story set before and after WWII in Germany and France, two warring countries, contrasting and interweaving the lives of the people about the Nazi occupation of France, about how radio broadcasts alerted the German military to covert actions and the French Resistance. Deeply moving, shocking, poignant, and irrestible. 10 years in the writing, this book is incredible. The alternating short stories can be difficult to follow, but that would be the only setback for e in reading it, highly recommend.
Review Date: 1/30/2017
Helpful Score: 1
An intellectual, piercing, poignant story of a woman stricken with cancer, and her will to live. The prose is truly beautiful, but this is no quick or easy read. I highly recommend Stegner's writing.
Review Date: 1/17/2021
Ag good coming of age book about Latino culture.
Review Date: 9/20/2020
Good chic lit set in Australia. Pretty predictable
Review Date: 9/1/2014
Excellent murder mystery and a very good read!
Review Date: 9/17/2020
I dind not, but my sister red this and said it was just an okay mystery. Re; Nazi caching of jewels stolen from the Jews.
Review Date: 11/8/2018
An excellent coming of age story about a 13 year old girls whose mother has a nervous breakdown. Couldn't put it down.
Review Date: 8/14/2020
I loved this book. It was beautifully written and reminded me of books by Kent Haruf and Wallace Stegner. Great storyline and character development. Highly recommend! S compelling tale of the new West, and coming of age, out of heartache and abuse.
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