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The Shape of Mercy is a rare and enjoyable combination: a book that is both warmly familiar and enticingly fresh. It is one of my new favorites. * The story begins with Lauren Durough, who has left a life of privilege to attend a state school and live in campus housing. Lauren answers a job post to help elderly librarian Abigail Boyles transcribe a family treasure – a 300-year-old diary written by Mercy Hayworth, a victim of the Salem witch trials. * The book intertwines the contemporary and historical stories. Author Susan Meissner deftly shifts between the stories, giving the focus just where you want. At first, Mercy’s story is much more intriguing. The journal accounts of the Puritan colonies brought me back to The Witch of Blackbird Pond – a book I haven’t read since middle school, when I loved it so much I read it several times over. * Lauren’s relationship with her parents is strained by her guilt over their affluence. She enjoys losing herself in Mercy’s life, which unfolds throughout the book. But just as Mercy’s story is ending, Lauren’s takes off and walking the journey with her is thrilling and enlightening. Lauren discovers Abigail may be keeping her own secrets; she can’t figure out her cousin’s friend Raul; and most of all, she discovered who she could be in the shape of Mercy. An oh-so-subtle theme emerges to make the story linger long in your mind. * This book is perfect for adult readers, but would also be appropriate for young adult and middle school audiences.
This book is in my top ten books ever. It is three different women in three different times, one is Virginia Woolf, just before she dies, the second is in crisis and reading Mrs. Dalloway (another favorite, read that first!!) and the third is like the character Mrs. Dalloway. You will love this and cry at the end, when you end up loving the characters you hated.
Worst Fitzgerald I've read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nancy Jo Sales
This is another one of those books I wish I could give a 3.5 star rating. Lamb's writing is brilliant, as always, and the epic scope of the story (stories, really) is breath-taking. I did feel it bogged down in the middle with the weight of all the tragedies, and for a while there I picked up the volume with trepidation, going 'what terrible thing is going to happen NOW?' Also, after I Know This Much is True, which is one of my favorite books, it didn't quite rise to my expectations. I thought his blending of fiction and non-fiction was interesting, if sometimes distracting. My favorite little "almost real" bit was the re-branding of Mohegan Sun Casino as "Wequonnoc Moon." In the end, hope emerged, and I was weeping and laughing concurrently, as with all Wally Lamb novels.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cung Kim Tiến
I just re-read this book with my nearly seven-year-old son. He really dug it and now we're reading more poetry together. He even wrote me a poem for my birthday. :) It's a slippery slope I've started him on.
What was so intriguing about the book when I first picked it up is that the cover reads (at least my edition of it) "a novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances, and home remedies". The plot revolves around the character Tita who is the youngest of three daughters. Due to this, her family tradition dictates that she must never marry but instead has to take care of her mother until her mother dies. Unfortunately, she falls in love with a boy named Pedro whom she knows she will never marry. In addition, she is her mother's least favorite daughter and the one on whom her mother takes out her anger. The only place that Tita can find solace is in the kitchen where the housekeeper (her surrogate mother) showers her in love and guidance in cooking. As Tita faces more tragedies (her sister marries Pedro, her mentor dies, etc.), she escapes through her cooking. Magically, when people eat her food they experience the emotions that she was feeling when she made the food. On nights when she is sad, everyone at the table begins weeping. Other nights she is filled with love and lust, and that is passed on to those who eat her food. At first, Tita doesn't understand her power but she soon is able to harness it and use it to speak for her when she is unable to speak for herself. My satisfaction with this book fluctuated. At times I found the recipes at the beginning of each chapter to be intriguing and endearing, while at others I thought they were annoying and kitschy. I thought that Tita's ability to affect others through her food was an excellent character trait and certainly carried me through the novel. However, there was no one in the novel that I actually liked and wasn't emotionally invested in the story or the characters. I think that it is worth reading because the technique is interesting and something that few others have tackled. However, I won't be re-reading this one. www.iamliteraryaddicted.blogspot.com
So far so good! I've even laughed out loud (YES- OUT.LOUD)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhóm Sư Phạm VHP
entertaining... educated... enlightening
A beautifully written and heartbreaking memoir that touched me deeply. I couldn't put this one down, it got under my skin so badly I just had to finish it. Yes, it's sad, yes,it's depressing BUT my life IS sad and depressing at the moment so I think that's one of the reasons it moved me. I'm trying to figure out how my own marriage ended and reading about her marriage, knowing someone else has been through this (even though I know others have), finding out that she came through it and was okay, helped me in more ways than I can even begin to tell you. I am so glad I found this memoir and so happy she wrote it. I am a fan!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Trọng Hữu
Liked it. Didn't love it. But it was a short, fast read and quite engaging.
Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.