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Home To Harmony Harmony 01
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Philip Gulley
feliciablasi
, April 07, 2009
The entire series of "Harmony" novels by Gulley are great reads, each one both funny and true, about a Quaker congregation in the Midwest, narrated by the Pastor. Both the characters' foibles and endearing qualities, will keep you turning the pages, as the pastor's insights, so keen and sometimes wry, are cause for laughter at times, and also provide the us with a true knowledge of the recurring characters, a group both diverse, yet all part of the Quaker congregation and the local community. When you finish one book in the series, you will crave the next one. Trust me!
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen
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, February 03, 2009
Having just finished this novel, I am still haunted by it: the mistreated animals and people, and the narrator, an aged man telling his story, going back and forth between his present in a nursing home and his past life as a traveling circus worker. Jacob Jankowski is a character not to be forgotten: A young man that lost his bearings and ended up as part of a circus, Jankowski is a voice for many characters including the many and distinct animals, Walter the dwarf, Camel the elderly, alcoholic man whose family has forgotten him, and others. The novel's ending is a bit too "tidy," but the rest, both comic and tragic, provides an honest look into a world --- life in a traveling circus during the Great Depression --- most of us have never seen and for which I am grateful to Gruen.
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