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It was everything I hoped it would be and I plan to read everything I can find by the author.
I actually started reading this book in January 2006 and couldn't get through it. Elisabeth Eaves' "Bare" was a much more intimate read; this is an in-depth look, very scholarly and researched, but I found it too dry to read for enjoyment.
Spoiled some book endings for me, but really got me thinking...my intellectually curiosity was alive and tearing into this book.
Something I felt I should read, and interesting, but not really very engaging, perhaps it would be better in Italian...
A fun, coming of age type of story, but including a traveling circus.
Serial Dating and Pain might have been a better title...although there were some very amusing things about it.
I read most of the American Girl books that were published through the mid-1990s, and am happy to see they're still doing stories for these characters - it's a nice, easy introduction to US history.
Lovely and painful, fulfilling my promise to a friend, I read this book and was definitely happy that I did. A deceptively simple book.
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One of those books that was well written, but I held too much disdain for the title character to truly enjoy it, much less desire to read it again.
I read this book for a class in high school, and it still one of those books that remains lodged in my memory. Poignant and at times disturbing it is not a light read.
I had no idea the author of Little Women was capable of such a passionate and frightening read. I was spellbound for the entirety of the novel and had no hope of putting it down until I'd finished.
This is definitely one of those painful books that I'm glad I read. I don't know that I could bring myself to pick it up again any time soon, but it is a powerful book that is a good look into one of the shady aspects of our country's history.
