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The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
bookluver, March 26, 2008
The Power of a SecretI loved Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. I am anxious to read her next book. This book touched my heart. There wasn't one character that I could put out of my mind. This book proved to me we can't change our lives. We can only accept what is given to us. The husband tried to fix his family's world. All the while he was destroying himself and the lives of people who became involved with him. The book is powerful. There is always victory in hope. This is proven by Phoebe.
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The Sister by Poppy Adams
bookluver, March 17, 2008
The Sister by Poppy Adams is fantastic. If you like to ask what makes a character or characters tick, you will love this book. It is also a novel about family. While reading the book, I realized how tightly woven together a family becomes through the years. The environment in which the family lives and grows definitely has its role in our psychological growth. Whether separate or together a family remains a unit playing upon each other like musical instruments.This book is like an organ. There are pipes, more pipes and many keys. Layers upon layers of musical melodies to read and reread. At the end, the mind still wonders why. Poppy Adams definitely deserves applause for this novel.
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King
bookluver, January 2, 2008
Why do we pick a book? Sometimes I, like this instance, fall in love with the title. Secondly, which soon became my number one reason, I fell in love with the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell. Since their first encounter, I have followed the pair on other adventures. The adventures never grow less exciting only more exciting.(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
bookluver, December 29, 2007
Never having lived in a warzone, "The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje gave me a greater understanding of the horrors of war. Three men and one woman remain living in a villa in the Tuscan hills.The villa has been destroyed by bombs during WWII. The lives of these four people, Hana, Kip, Caravaggio and the English patient are also damaged deeply.
The poetic way in which Michael Ondaatje writes is spectacular. Somehow the poetic prose took me under the skin of the characters. I began to see and feel what the people felt as if I were there walking with Kip to find undiscovered mines, with Caravaggio as he shared conversations and morphine with the English patient, listening to Hana read "Kim" by Kipling to the burnt and unrecognizable English patient and falling down a well of memories with the English patient. Herodotus always in his line of vision.
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Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
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1-5 of 15 nextbookluver, September 29, 2007
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat is a moving memoir. The people in Haiti go through their struggles with the desire to survive without loss of honesty.Edwidge Danticat interweaves her family tree into the story. While her father and uncle deal with aging and death, Mrs. Danticat never stops caring for uncle and father while at the same time expecting her first baby.
Also, the reader experiences an immigrant's first feelings and their treatment when they step on the shores of Miami. The answer, for Haitians, is astounding.
To the very last page, Brother, I'm Dying is magnificent.
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