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Sweet Harvest Homestead
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lindy
Stanfield
NC
USA
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asnedecor
True Blue Farmgirl
1054 Posts
Anne
Portland
Or
USA
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 Posted - Dec 21 2006 : 7:48:43 PM
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Isn't this the one where the young girl wants to go to a private school but lives on the "wrong" side of town? She ends up using another address so she can go to the school after her father encourages her. Then her father dies, her mother is trying to raise her and her siblings etc. I think at the end when she graduates there are white roses for her from her father - something like that. If so, I love this one.
Anne in Portland
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them" Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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Posted - Dec 21 2006 : 8:55:05 PM
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A classic!! Great story.
www.strawberryhillsfarm.blogspot.com
"Life may not be the party we hoped for...but while we are here we might as well dance!" |
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peapodjane
True Blue Farmgirl
127 Posts
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Posted - Dec 22 2006 : 02:41:05 AM
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I read the book many years ago, I enjoyed it very much. I enjoyed the authors other work also.
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
2077 Posts
Bonnie
New York
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2006 : 03:29:22 AM
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I watched it a few years ago, I would love to see it again. I have the book too, a good one to get out for the New Year!
O, Come let us adore HIM! www.beequilting.blogspot.com |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Dec 22 2006 : 05:47:47 AM
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This is one of my favorites besides To Kill a Mockingbird (both book and movie). Oh! The relationship she had with her father--I felt very much the same about my daddy--very bittersweet, indeed.
Later, when I left performing arts boarding school and moved to New York, I chose Williamsburg Brooklyn to live where the story was set, because they still have quaint neighborhoods, and it feels still like small town america even though it's in an urban environment. People tended flower gardens, and had groceries and butchers. I lived in (what I thought) must have been such a similar tenement style apartment--we had the laundry lines connecting to the other apartment buildings across a bare courtyard area with a few sparse weeds, and a tree. The smells, the different cultures--just amazingly portrayed. This book was such an education for me.
I own both a first edition and the dvd....so yes, I love it 
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Dec 22 2006 : 07:16:46 AM
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| Never read the book, but I liked the movie. I love her plan to read through the library alphabetically, only she get's stuck on Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. What a title...I thought it was made up until I got to college and had to read it (only excerpts, thank goodness). |
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - Dec 23 2006 : 07:55:43 AM
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| My two favorie books in the world! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and To Kill a Mockingbird!!!! |
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abbasgurl
True Blue Farmgirl
1262 Posts
Rhonda
USA
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Posted - Dec 23 2006 : 2:20:19 PM
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Love the book, but have never seen the movie. Do you ladies who have seen it recommend it?
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