Well ??? Still not sure what I think of this book. May have to leave my actual review until after I've had more time to mull it over.****Shouldn't have started another book when I am 1) working my way through a gigantic historical piece, AND 2) need to get working on Sa Femme for French Book Club...
The ending was so shocking! All along I thought I knew what I had gotten myself into and then pow. It hits me like dynamite. This is written from the fairy godmother's Point of Veiw, her is the shocker SPOILER ALERT:She is a mortal old lady not a fairy at all. Okay I refuse to tell the ending but...
Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not education for his misfit daughter. When a mysteriou...
Far above us, I could see rays of light cutting through the lowest of the tangled branches dipping through the lake's surface. We were half in shadow. I stretched out my arms. Maybeth, my sister, slept next to me, wrapped in a yellow water lily and her own wings. I reached over and shook her awak...
She couldn’t stop thinking about Jeff Jackson . . . smiling, imagining his manly chest under the sun, his yellow hair, what it would be like to kiss him . . . She couldn’t concentrate on anything at all. She tried picking up the vampire novel she was reading, but the words blurred in front of her...
Josef’s joy became my joy, and I learned from him to immerse myself in extravagant pleasures. I learned to love spice-filled sauces, fine wines, and elaborate desserts full of fruit and cream and nuts. I learned to love damask and silk, the feel of diamonds and emeralds and rubies weighing down m...