Without that, the book is a modestly interesting story. I know the author wants me to feel warm and fuzzy about it, but it never really got there for me. The relationship between Hannah and Bailey was strained from the beginning, and never really developed through the crisis to the end. There are other problems with the story and the execution, but the biggest negative for me is that I never “got” that mother/daughter bonding emotional core. As much as that upbringing ultimately shaped Hannah in a positive way, she (apparently) longs for a connection with Bailey, and is willing to risk and/or sacrifice everything to achieve it – no matter how much of a teenage brat Bailey is and no matter how much Bailey has resented Hannah ever since she married the girl’s father. That’s the whole story – that connection and Hannah’s emotions and decisions that link back to her own feelings of abandonment after her mother left her as a child in the care of her benevolent grandfather. I’m certainly not the target audience, and I’ll admit that, as a male, I may be missing the emotional connection between the heroine, Hannah, and her step-daughter, Bailey. Based on the hype and the 60,000 reviews on Amazon, I had high expectations. This bestseller and Reese’s Book Club selection is my book club’s January read.
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These and many more inside revelations await the lucky owner of RICHARD MATHESONS NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:07:17 Autocrop_version 0.0.12_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40438108 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier His writings are imbued with a reverence for the land and for nature, and they emphasize the importance of cooperation and community over rugged individualism in human interactions with the land, often portraying the tension between those opposing forces. Ben-Ari adds: "Indeed, both the style and substance of much of Stegner's writing resonates with those who love the land and are concerned with conserving it. Similarly, Nancy Huddleston Packer calls Stegner the "voice of sane conservation" (2009, 217). Wally was not only firmly fixed at the highest level of this tradition, he became one of the most eloquent and intelligent voices in defense of the voiceless that our literature has ever produced" (qtd. Watkins, wrote to Stegner's wife in 1987: "It is quite impossible to think of the long struggle for conservation without conjuring up a pantheon of names, from Henry David Thoreau to Edward Abbey, whose illumination has provided the very light by which we work. Wallace Stegner's legacy blends his prowess as a respected writer with his noted contributions to the wilderness preservation movement. But believes in what? In whatever it may be that envelopes it in what we, in our human language, call space, earth, sunlight, and motion in the throbbing possibility of putting forth something which we call leaves, for which that patient soul has no name and no image.”1ĭr. “The vegetative soul”, Santayana wrote, “enjoys … Christian blessedness: it sees not, yet it believes. 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Love in the Time of Cholera, set in the 1870s in an unnamed city in the Caribbean, examines the meaning of love through the intertwined lives of Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza, and Dr. She credited her history-teaching years, 1925 to 1936, for developing a sense of history which became the foundation for her writings. Norah (Robinson) Lofts was born in Norfolk, England on August 27, 1904. In addition, Lofts has written thrillers under the pseudonym Peter Curtis and novels as Juliet Astley. Lofts is also well known for biographical novels about great and fascinating women of history such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon. In works such as "Scent of Cloves" (1940), "Bless This House" (1954), and "Crown of Aloes" (1979), period detail and language are blended with a masterful storytelling technique. In her long and prolific career, she wrote more than 60 books of nonfiction, biography and historical fiction, animating history and yet preserving historical accuracy. 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