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Beautiful Child A Beautiful Book
"The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember", said Mark Twain. I believe this to be the case. The inability to forget is a memory that makes a home in you. It pulls the strings of your mind and heart for better or worse. When something pulls at both the heart and mind it becomes a part of your soul.
By simplicity3 years ago in BookClub
Book Club: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
When I was fourteen, I read a book that forever stayed with me. The name of the book is, “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” by Betty Smith. This novel was about a girl named Francis Nolan who grew up in a tenement house in Brooklyn in 1912.
By Kristen Ulrich3 years ago in BookClub
Savouring a Personal Feat With The Booker Prize Winners
To say I love reading probably sounds trite and clichéd. Who doesn’t? you might be tempted to ask. However, perhaps I am obsessed with books, both fiction and non-fiction, and so took a keen interest in the British Booker Prize award some years ago. It soon became obvious that only certain people became judges - the known literati - who then chose the books in their own image, likeness and opinions of what deserved to win. Often I gazed wistfully at the growing list of winners wondering when I would see someone like me as a Booker recipient. I just couldn’t imagine how long I would have to wait.
By Elaine Sihera3 years ago in BookClub
Little Book, Big Message
Is it possible to look back and pick defining moments in our reading lives? I was nearing the end of college, probably about the time many get obsessed with new jobs and new relationships. Some are starting families and just cannot find the same amount of time to read. I think I was one or two bad books from watching more tv and reading less.
By Noah Glenn3 years ago in BookClub
Rembrandt's Whore
The book "Rembrandt's Whore" by Sylvie Matton, looks at the relationship between Rembrandt and his servant and lover Hendrickje Stoffels. The story is told through the words of Hendrickje although she admits that she can not read or write. On some the pages she is relating her feelings to Rembrandt and in other parts of the book she is observing him. Her life story demonstrates the power of society on your life. Now a days we often believe love is all you need. That outsiders can't hurt you. When she moved into Rembrandt's house she was just a servant. Next she became a model for his paintings, and then one day he kissed her. In this story she declared that she loved him and his son.
By Antoinette L Brey3 years ago in BookClub
Y.A. Fiction Isn't Just For Kids
Nothing can quite describe the joy of walking through the Junior's or Young Adult section of a library when you're a kid. Moving up at last from picture books to chapter books is a heck of a milestone: for once you feel grown up, sophisticated, not like the babies sitting in a circle for story time and hand puppets. It's a feeling that can't quite be explained, and once that magic is gone it's almost impossible to recapture it.
By Natalie Gray3 years ago in BookClub
Book Clubs I Have Not Joined
Is this what book clubs look like I think to myself as I look at pictures of book clubs. I know there is an Oprah book club with suggestions about what to read. But then I think about how I never have trouble knowing what I wish to read.
By Denise E Lindquist3 years ago in BookClub
Forever Changing
I know what you’re all thinking: ugh, another mushy “the Harry Potter series saved my life” piece. Had this been a few years ago, I probably would have written something along those lines. The Harry Potter books did not save my life, per se, but they did define me, shape me into the person that I am today—and then revisiting them through the lens of what their author has become tore me down and made me rethink everything that I had thought that I had ever stood for.
By Stephanie Hoogstad3 years ago in BookClub
Review of 'The Whispering Dark'
Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents. Colton Price died when he was nine years old. Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. Now, twelve years later, Delaney Meyers-Petrov has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton's been ordered to keep far away from the new girl... and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows. Delaney wants to keep her distance from Colton — she seems to be the only person on campus who finds him more arrogant than charming — yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them — and their forbidden partnership — apart.
By Cyn's Workshop3 years ago in BookClub
Anne of Green Gables
The book that changed my life the most was Anne of Green Gable by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This book gave me the courage to be me and helped shape me into the writer I am today. Anne, with an E, helped me understand that there was life after mortal embarrassment. This book is one I encouraged both my children to read.
By Mother Combs3 years ago in BookClub
