Tag: Reviews
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Comfort and Joy
Kristin Hannah, 2005 Joy Candellaro has always loved Christmas. Until this one. She is recently divorced and her sister, with whom she was always close, has further broken her heart. Without these two relationships, life seems to have no point. Impulsively, Joy buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the Northwest. Things do…
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House of the Seven Gables (From Two Angles)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Hepzibah Pyncheon is so desperately poor she must open a little shop on the lower level of her ancestral home, known as the House of the Seven Gables. She refuses all help from her wealthy cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. About the same time, Hepzibah’s brother, Clifford comes home after serving a thirty-year…
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A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle, 1991 In this nonfiction book, Peter Mayle and his wife realize their dream of moving to the south of France. They move into a 200 year old stone farmhouse in the Luberon, and it needs a lot of fixing and changing. This book goes through the entire year from January to December and…
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Why Everyone Needs a Book Club and a Review
And last but not least, you get to read books like Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (which is the whole point of this post). I have been reading the blog called Sean of the South for quite a few months. He has a blog post every single day and the more posts I read, the more I became interested…
So She Reads 