A Sister's Memories: The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott
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Among the great figures of Progressive Era reform, Edith and Grace Abbott are perhaps the least...
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This is the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and...
The Infinite Sea
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The Infinite Sea is the second book in the phenomenal and bestselling 5th Wave series by...
The Last Star
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The Last Star is the heart-stopping finale to the bestselling 5th Wave series by award-winning...
The Letter for the King
Tonke Dragt and Laura Watkinson
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A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril. It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old...
The Flying Classroom
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The Missing Matisse: A Memoir
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Nazi planes were bombing Paris the day a lifelong, more personal war began for Pierre. It was the...
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Housekeeping: Faber Modern Classics in Books
Sep 7, 2017
Ruth, who is our main narrator, is speaking about her childhood in which her sister Lucille and her were continually abandoned by one family or another. Eventually they end up with their deeply eccentric aunt Sylvie, and she seems completely incapable in many ways of being a responsible parent, but rather a sister instead. She leads a transcient life, having deserted her husband, jumping on trains to get from place to place. She's a spirited wanderer, and sees Ruth as an ally and her own sister, Helen, who killed herself at the start of the book.
Their solitary life of never mixing, but staying in the great outdoors both seems idyllic and claustrophobic. There are images of the lake where the children's mother committed suicide, that seem to draw the women to this area. The metaphors are cold and quiet hence it feels unnerving.
It's a classic American tale about real women, which makes this different to the old books talking only about marriage and fidelity.
David (771 KP) rated Hey Duggee in TV
Jan 20, 2018
Favourite episodes of mine (*cough* and my 2 year old daughter):
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I could go on but would end up listing every episode. Get your kids, grandkids, cousins, nieces and nephews watching, they will thank you for it, "Ah....woof!"
