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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 12:09:26 PM
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Just finished this book in...48 hours while working full time and hanging out with my 2 year old :) It's that good. I read almost my whole lunch hour yesterday, last night in bed, lunch today and it's finished.
Such a trying story, though--I mean, for the characters. I loved Julie, the narrator of the story--17 when the story opens, she is already well versed in hard work and the description of young love is just like that. She marries and life becomes..life. Complicated, challenging, struggle after struggle, highs and lows and back to love again. Set in rural South Carolina I would think, about 1899 or 1900.
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 12:55:01 PM
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I just ordered this from my library, had heard about it before and seems like a good read. Thanks for the heads up :)
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vintagediva1
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michele
Brighton
Michigan
USA
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 31 2011 : 9:04:44 PM
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I loved that one too. It has been awhile since I read it...good one!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2011 : 06:37:39 AM
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I know, Michele--I wish I was closer, too. We'd have ourselves a nice little book club! I'd love to know what you think about it.
Now, I'm reading Little Bee. And it's stellar. It's arresting, in that it's about the oil wars and Nigerian refugees coming to Britain, but focuses on one girl's plight and the way she crosses paths with a British woman and her husband. Really amazingly written. There is even humor amidst the dark, dark sentiment of war and genocide.
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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coaloha
True Blue Farmgirl
502 Posts
Pam
USA
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Posted - Aug 13 2011 : 10:27:09 PM
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I read Gap Creek a while back and enjoyed it very much. The main character's marriage, which I remember being the central theme of the book, seemed honest and real. This was a refreshing read.
Pam Barnes-Palty
Phoenix, AZ
Farmgirl #1075
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 06:24:31 AM
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Absolutely--so funny, I was thinking about that this morning, Pam--it really was "real"...marriage is work, life is work, babies are work and though set in a different time, a different place, the bones are still the same.
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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Reading Room: Gap Creek by Robert Morgan |
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Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
