I could not stand the main character. I thought all the mountain folk were stereotypical -- such hard lives but still full of spunk! At least the book did not reach the happily ever after ending that I predicted, where the hard living woman finds the Lord and marries the local preacher, but what...
This book, pardon the pun, really "hit home". It's aout a rebellious young woman who has lost her way, raised by a strict grandmother and upon her Father's death is sent to his home to claim an inheritance. To do so, she is required to live in this town he called home for 6 months before she get...
She left each lump where it landed, the baking sheet patterned like a minefield, random blobs here and there, some touching, some close enough to grow into each other as they baked. Claire offered to help. “No one complains about ugly cookies,” Beve...
Usually she phoned him, once a week on Sundays; he made sterile conversation with her and his father—What’s going on at the university? At church? How is this neighbor or that colleague?—fulfilling his obligation as a son. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to speak to them, but it took effort to act ...
This year it’s Maine, a ten-hour drive and a rented cottage on a bluff overlooking the sea. Little for me to do but toss rocks into the ocean and poke yellow-green seaweed with dead sticks. I wish we can visit somewhere exciting, like Disney World or the Grand Canyon. Or even Lake George, where t...