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One Pair of Hands
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'Life was a wordless battle of wits between us, with her keeping a sharp look-out for signs of...
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The Difficulty of Breathing
Book
Has the man in the moon ever whispered to you? Did you ever wondered what happened to your white...
YA Coming of Age LGBTQ
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Jenny Houle (24 KP) rated The Sunshine Sisters in Books
Jan 13, 2018
From the very beginning of the book, we are told the outcome. Green uses the rest of the book to take us through the lives of the Sunshine sisters in relationship to their mother, Ronnie Sunshine.
I cannot suggest a "faster" way to get all the women to the point where they know the eventual outcome, but there was something disheartening about being just over 80% into the book when Ronnie tells her daughters why she has asked them to come home. At the same time, Green, in her ever present style, does a great job of wrapping all the pieces together up so there are no loose ends.
Green is very good, as an author, at reminding us that what the characters see/perceive is not always the case. What a person takes as neglect can, from the other character's viewpoint be an assumption of strength, for example. And when enough people are trying to survive the same demon, in different ways, it becomes easy to look out just for oneself.
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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated Bitter Almonds in Books
Jul 2, 2019
This is a book worth persisting with.
Breaking the Cycle: C.L.E.A.N.E.R. Living Therapy Programme
Book
This handbook takes a holistic approach in dealing with the impact of emotional abuse, physical...
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Vera Vera Vera
Book
The boy who comes back from a war far away in a wooden box is glorified and called a hero. As the...
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Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain
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What do the woods mean to us? Why are we moved by their beauty and unsettled by their dark mystery?...
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Franz Kafka and His Prague Contexts: Studies on Language and Literature
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Franz Kafka is by far the Prague author most widely read and admired internationally. However, his...
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Forget Me Not
Book
In Australia, Gerry hopes to meet his mother for the first time. Despite being almost sixty, he has...
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Germany's East Wall in World War II
Adam Hook and Neil Short
Book
The East Wall was where the final battles for the stricken Third Reich were fought, amid scenes of...