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Good morning….just passing along a recommendation. It looks good but will be awhile before I can get it.
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
"Maia D’Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, “Atlantis”—a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva—having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage—a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings.
Eighty years earlier in Rio’s Belle Epoque of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela—passionate and longing to see the world—convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski’s studio and in the heady, vibrant cafes of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again."
Now I am reading Close To Home by Lisa Jackson for a buddy read.
Lisa Genova has a new book out. She Wrote Still Alice about Alzheimer's. The latest is about an Irish family in the US for generations. Inside the O'Briens is about a family dealing with Huntington's disease. After Still Alice I read Left Neglected. In that one she writes about a 30ish soccer mom who suffers brain damage in a car wreck that leaves her "left-neglected." She cannot even recognize anything on her left. I enjoyed that book.
No, I don't concentrate on books about illness and disease. I like Genova's books because she spins amazing stories that are populated by some very interesting characters (many of whom I like).
I trudging along with a couple of books that I thought were novels, and neither one was. Jonathan Franzen's essays "Farrher Away" and Elizabeth Gilbert's short stories "Pilgrims".
Each of them is good in its own say, but I prefer the novel form. I skipped a lot of the Franzen, but as a birder, I liked his descriptions of those adventures.
Lisa Genova has a new book out. She Wrote Still Alice about Alzheimer's. The latest is about an Irish family in the US for generations. Inside the O'Briens is about a family dealing with Huntington's disease. After Still Alice I read Left Neglected. In that one she writes about a 30ish soccer mom who suffers brain damage in a car wreck that leaves her "left-neglected." She cannot even recognize anything on her left. I enjoyed that book.
No, I don't concentrate on books about illness and disease. I like Genova's books because she spins amazing stories that are populated by some very interesting characters (many of whom I like).
I like her writing. I tried to reserve the new one but it was too soon for my libraries. I did pick up Left Neglected last week….now I just have to get to it. I have a big stack of books
I finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and loved it. Going in I thought it was sort of a silly lark of book but I was way off. It's a very moving story of love and redemption.
I have Ordinary Wolves waiting at the library. I have no idea what it's about but have seen it recommended on here. Hope it's another pleasant surprise.
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I finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and loved it. Going in I thought it was sort of a silly lark of book but I was way off. It's a very moving story of love and redemption.
The part that I bolded ^ -- that's the reason that I never read the book. It looks like I'll reconsider. I've had it on my Kindle forever, but I didn't want to read a silly story. I'm happy to hear that it's not.
I finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and loved it. Going in I thought it was sort of a silly lark of book but I was way off. It's a very moving story of love and redemption.
The part that I bolded ^ -- that's the reason that I never read the book. It looks like I'll reconsider. I've had it on my Kindle forever, but I didn't want to read a silly story. I'm happy to hear that it's not.
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Loved that book except for how it ended.
I had seen it described as light and "twee," (which is a new word for me!) and while it's certainly built around a whimsical framework, it also is a nuanced tale about love, marriage, friendship, guilt and redemption. Maybe it was just the mood I was in, but I didn't find it particularly light. Or twee.
The end definitely was bittersweet.
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