So, I didn't actually read the whole book. There was too much swearing and things were starting to get crude. The writing, when it wasn't in the voice of one of the characters, was beautiful. I wanted to be in the town where the book takes place so I could feel the peace of the nature, see the...
I have read 5 of Cathie Pelletier's books so I was really looking forward to another, but I have to admit I was disappointed with this one. Also, a friend that grew up in the County was horrified with the portrayal of the people of Aroostook. I did not find any of the characters compelling wit...
I received this copy from Goodreads First Reads. It's good, but really REALLY weird. I'm enjoying the narrative, the McKinnons, Giffords, the drunks, the bored housewives and everyone in between. The author moves from the little histories of its minor characters to the unsettling feelings of the ...
Once Upon A Time On the Banks by Cathie PellitierMaine, first day of spring. Amy Joy Lawler comes to town and will wed and her mother has taken to her bed.Trouble amongst the natives, when one outsider wants to marry a native townie.This is almost like a Hatfield/McCoy battle and some of the thin...
One year and six days into an unsatisfactory retirement, Howard Woods is awakened by his wife in the early hours of the morning to hear the news of a decades-old betrayal. He does not take it well. Howard upends his well-ordered life and, to the dismay of his family, announces his intention of tr...
Cathie Pelletier is back with a hilarious, touching, and insightful novel about the Woodstock generation. In A Marriage Made at Woodstock, Fred and Lorraine Stone, a forty-something couple who met and fell in love at the famous musical festival in upstate New York, have evolved and grown - but no...
Cathie Pelletier has been called a "bitingly funny, highly original novelist" and in The Bubble Reputation her strong clear voice as a writer truly comes to the forefront. Full of powerful scenes and down-home wisdom, this novel is the story of Rosemary O'Neal and her northern Maine family, inclu...
The acclaimed author of THE FUNERAL MAKERS, A MARRIAGE MADE AT WOODSTOCK, and RUNNING THE BULLS delivers a funny, poignant novel about the complicated love between a mother and her son. When her wayward boy Sonny takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer, Mattie finds herself ...
She could knock on his door, the way she often did before Henry died, and say, “Chad, honey, you’re missing a beautiful day out there.” But this was back when nothing was really wrong. This was in that other life when Chad might oversleep a half hour if he’d been up late the night before, watchin...
—Collins American English Dictionary Sunday morning found Pearl McKinnon Ivy staring out of her bedroom window with dark circles beneath her eyes. There had been voices again in the summer kitchen, lilting and ghostly. She had even nudged Marvin awake and asked him to listen. &n...
TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER. BEAM US UP, SCOTTY. HOW’S THE WEATHER UP THERE? SEEN ANY GOOD GALAXIES LATELY? DON’T FORGET TO TAKE OUT THE SPACE TRASH. WHEN IN DOUBT, GOOGLE. &nb...