Ann Patchett wrote Tom Lake in 2023. This is a family novel. Three daughters want to know about their mother's life prior to her marriage to her father. In her earlier years, before she had three daughters. Lara was an actress in a summer theater group in northern Michigan called Tom Lake. She starred in the play, Our Town. The person who played her father in the play went on to become a famous movie star. Their father was the director of the play so he knew both Lara and the famous movie star. The daughters are begging for details as they pick cherries on their farm in Michigan. Patchett is a talented writer and I totally enjoyed this family drama.
Orange is my favorite color.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
The Girl With No Name
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Crow Mary
Kathleen Grissom is the author of Crow Mary, a book inspired by a indigenous woman named Goes First who married a white man named Abe Farrell in 1872. At the time she was 16. Since she was from the Crow Tribe and white people called women Mary, she became Crow Mary. Her story, her life, her loves, her successes and her failures make for great reading. Crow Mary lives with her family in Canada and Montana, often traveling great distances to seek a better life. In some ways Abe is a brave and kind man. At other times he is selfish and cruel. Crow Mary is the dependable steady rock of a woman upon whom her children rely. This was a very interesting story. Some parts are very sad. The forward to this incredibly moving story is written by Crow Mary's great granddaughter.
Friday, May 3, 2024
The Motion Picture Teller
Thursday, May 2, 2024
One Puzzling Afternoon
Emily Critchley is the author of One Puzzling Afternoon, a mystery historical fiction novel set in a small town in the British Isles. Edie is 84 now but in the book she is a schoolgirl living with her mother and father in the same house she lives in when she was 84. Her mother tells fortunes which both embarrasses and scares Edie. Sometimes her mother really is able to tell a fortune. Edie becomes friends with one of the wealthy, popular girls at her school. Her friend disappears at age 15. At age 84, Edie is determined to find out what happened to her friend all those years ago. This book was interesting because the narrator, Edie, has dementia. Sometimes she knows she has dementia. Other times she is highly offended when people treat her as forgetful. I thought the book was beautifully written.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
The Bird Hotel
Joyce Maynard is the author of the novel, The Bird Hotel. This is literature and historical fiction and travel writing. The story goes over 40 years. The story starts out when Irene is 4 years old and living/traveling with her Mom and the Mom's boyfriend as they travel across the country to attend a music festival called Woodstock. Irene is a neglected child who really doesn't understand that she is neglected. She ends up living with her Grandmother who tells her never to speak about her mother anymore. Irene grows up to be a talented artist. Tragedy strikes her again and she just up and leaves. She ends up in Central America at a hotel. The owner of the hotel, a kind and giving woman, takes her in and gives her space to heal. Eventually she inherits the hotel and brings it back into full service supervising the many necessary repairs. Irene meets many characters in her life as a hotelier. She leads an interesting and fulfilling life. I could honestly tell that the author has spent time in small villages in Central America. I loved reading this book and hated to see it end.
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett wrote Tom Lake in 2023. This is a family novel. Three daughters want to know about their mother's life prior to her marr...
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