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A Bird in the House: Stories (Phoenix Fiction Series)by...Margaret Laurence rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...1930s canada childs_pov connected stories entry...'A series of related stories that combined together = anovel. They are told from the viewpoint of 6 year old Vanessa who describes herself as a "professional listener". ...' view |
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A Cure for Dreamsby...Kaye Gibbons rating...3 shelf...have readtags...mothersdaughters north_carolina novel preww2_depression entry...'This is a novel in the form of a memoir. It chronicles the life of a young girl from her birth to marriage. Her family is poor & ...' view |
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A Southern Familyby...Gail Godwin rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...family life modernus_south relationships entry...'A novel on the grand scale. unforgettable scenes & characters. It brought tears & laughter & my daughters read & enjoyed it. ...' view |
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A Thousand Acres: A Novelby...Jane Smiley rating...5 shelf...have readtags...family_life farm_ life_iowa_fiction relationships sisters viewable entries...none |
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After This: A Novelby...Alice McDermott rating...5 shelf...have readtags...family_life fiction us_post ww2 entry...'A typical family story of a woman who meets a man recently returned from WW2. They marry & have 4 children. What happens during their lives together is ...' view |
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All He Ever Wanted: A Novelby...Anita Shreve rating...3 shelf...have readtags...early_20th_century england family_life fiction new entry...'Not one of my favorite Anita Shreve novels. This story is told by a male narrator, a college professor who decides that he is in love with a young ...' view |
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Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)by...Wallace Stegner rating...5 shelf...have readtags...engineers history montana pioneers relationships westernus entry...'The angle of repose is a term used in geology to determine the place where an object stops moving & becomes stationary. In his novel, Wallace Stegner uses the ...' view |
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Animal Dreamsby...Barbara Kingsolver rating...5 shelf...have readtags...arizona central_america family_relationships fiction grief love entry...'This novel is told with alternating points of view between a father & daughter. The daughter becomes with a young man from the Hopi Pueblo. Another daughter volunteers ...' view |
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Beauty: A Friendshipby...Ann Patchett rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...friendships illness memoir women writers entry...'Although we know at the beginning how this book is going to end, Ann Patchett has drawn us so deeply into the story of her friendship with poet & writer ...' view |
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Blessingsby...Anna Quindlen rating...3 shelf...have readtags...babies novel relationships entry...'A warm-hearted storyabout an elderly lady, a young man & the mysterious appearance of a baby. The characters are well drawn, but the story lacks credibility to me. ...' view |
