- Taschenbuch: 474 Seiten
- Verlag: Createspace (6. Dezember 2010)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1456451111
- ISBN-13: 978-1456451110
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,7 x 20 x 13,1 cm
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Enlightening Family Saga
6. Dezember 2010
Von TN-ID-Owner
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I have read many, many books and my favorites are the ones that pull me into the story, stir my emotions, and keep me reading late into the night.
I grew up on a farm in Missouri and lived in Ohio and Arizona through the early years of my adulthood. I eventually spent several years in the southern tip of Argentina and now divide my time between a farm in Tennessee and a home in the pines of northern Idaho. I grew up watching shows that depicted just the sunny side of life. Now television is full of "reality" shows. To me, all those shows just hit the peaks of life and do not dip down into the valleys. The valleys are the true reality of life and I am thrilled when I pick up an excellent book such as A Devil Singing Small and experience life again through someone else's eyes.
Whether you lived during the same time frame or not, the author has the gift of making you feel that you are in that moment of time. The author's characters are true to my experience in life. The harshness yet healing qualities derived from making your living from the land are what have given strength to many over time as they do for the main character in this book. Reliving the events of the story depicted so accurately brought back memories to me that ranged between joyous and sad. Karen Charbonneau took my heart in hand, squeezed it painfully numerous times, but left me whole and enormously enlightened at the end. I look forward to reading her next book.
I grew up on a farm in Missouri and lived in Ohio and Arizona through the early years of my adulthood. I eventually spent several years in the southern tip of Argentina and now divide my time between a farm in Tennessee and a home in the pines of northern Idaho. I grew up watching shows that depicted just the sunny side of life. Now television is full of "reality" shows. To me, all those shows just hit the peaks of life and do not dip down into the valleys. The valleys are the true reality of life and I am thrilled when I pick up an excellent book such as A Devil Singing Small and experience life again through someone else's eyes.
Whether you lived during the same time frame or not, the author has the gift of making you feel that you are in that moment of time. The author's characters are true to my experience in life. The harshness yet healing qualities derived from making your living from the land are what have given strength to many over time as they do for the main character in this book. Reliving the events of the story depicted so accurately brought back memories to me that ranged between joyous and sad. Karen Charbonneau took my heart in hand, squeezed it painfully numerous times, but left me whole and enormously enlightened at the end. I look forward to reading her next book.
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Gutwrenching
31. Januar 2012
Von Lucy Ditty
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I can't say that I "enjoyed" or "liked" this book. I would have to say "appreciated" and "respected" are better terms. It was difficult to read from an emotional standpoint and my heart ached as I was reading.
I was actually surprised to come back to this page for the review process and discover it was labeled as fiction. I had the impression somehow that this was a nonfiction memoir and had labeled it as such in my Kindle collections, and nothing about the book contradicted that impression.
Betty's honesty about her thoughts, feelings, and actions add depth to what could otherwise be a martyr's tale. Mitch's character and problems are clearly delineated without dwelling on them overmuch. In fact, I was somewhat surprised and impressed at how well the author showed us how difficult it was to live with Mitch without resorting to frequent and detailed explanations of his strange ideas and thoughts.
As a measure of how immersed I was in this story, I have no comments to make on the technical aspects of this book, such as grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. These are areas I frequently address in my reviews, and I often highlight problems in my Kindle to remind myself. There are no marks in this book and if there were errors, for once they didn't register with me or impact my degree of absorption.
I was actually surprised to come back to this page for the review process and discover it was labeled as fiction. I had the impression somehow that this was a nonfiction memoir and had labeled it as such in my Kindle collections, and nothing about the book contradicted that impression.
Betty's honesty about her thoughts, feelings, and actions add depth to what could otherwise be a martyr's tale. Mitch's character and problems are clearly delineated without dwelling on them overmuch. In fact, I was somewhat surprised and impressed at how well the author showed us how difficult it was to live with Mitch without resorting to frequent and detailed explanations of his strange ideas and thoughts.
As a measure of how immersed I was in this story, I have no comments to make on the technical aspects of this book, such as grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. These are areas I frequently address in my reviews, and I often highlight problems in my Kindle to remind myself. There are no marks in this book and if there were errors, for once they didn't register with me or impact my degree of absorption.
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Exquisitely Written Tale of Marriage and Madness
26. März 2011
Von Phyllis T. Smith
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This is a beautifully written excerpt. We met Betty, surrounded by a snow-covered landscape, and trying to cope with a husband who seems quite mad. The tension is heightened when one of her dogs finds the corpse of a hunter, dead in an accident. How can she persuade Mitch, her paranoid husband, to let her call the sheriff? I was drawn right in, caught up in Betty's dilemma.
There are lyrical descriptions of both the natural setting and Betty's feelings, and also a poignant glimpse of her and Mitch in better days. This is a wonderful start to what I suspect is a topnotch novel. I want go right on reading.
(author of I AM LIVIA)
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There are lyrical descriptions of both the natural setting and Betty's feelings, and also a poignant glimpse of her and Mitch in better days. This is a wonderful start to what I suspect is a topnotch novel. I want go right on reading.
(author of I AM LIVIA)
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