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Bezig met laden... Mother Carey's Chickens (1911)door Kate Douglas Wiggin
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) njcur | Sep 30, 2023 |  marievictoire | May 2, 2023 | Anyway, it turns out that, while this book hits on the topic of the petrels repeatedly, the actual reference comes from a book written some 50 years further in the past, The Water Babies. I didn't learn this until I'd tackled quite a bit of this particular book. Later on, I read the predecessor so as to help me figure things out better. I wasn't sure about this book at the beginning. It seemed a bit too much goody-two-shoes even for my elderly, repressed Calvinist tastes. But then I got into the book, and rather liked it. Mother Carey is a young(-ish) woman who has four children, Nancy, Gilbert, Kathleen, and Peter. Her husband is a sea captain and is visited by an admiral, who is the one who named the children "Mother Carey's Chickens". Anyway, Capt. Carey gets sick and dies. So, to cut down on expenses, Mother Carey and her children move to Beulah, Maine, a place where they fondly remember a lovely, yellow house from one of their earlier travels. The lovely, yellow house is up for rent, so they rent it. They make friends in the town, they make friends with the yellow house's owner, a diplomat named Mr. Hamilton. So, anyway, in all these interactions, they help the people around themselves become better people...or something. And, of course, it's all hearts and flowers, or is trending that way at any rate, in the end. If you like old stuff and heartwarming stuff, this is a lovely book to pick up. ( ) lgpiper | Jan 10, 2021 |  ) njcur | Feb 13, 2014 |  ) kathleen586 | Mar 29, 2013 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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SUMMER MAGIC When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown and uncharted land, the rest of the Careys tried in vain for a few months to be still a family, and did not succeed at all. They clung as closely to one another as ever they could, but there was always a gap in the circle where father had been. The only thing to do was to remember father's pride and justify it, to recall his care for mother and take his place so far as might be; the only thing for all, as the months went on, was to be what mother called the three Bs -- brave, bright, and busy. Can mother Nancy Carey find happy futures for her daughters Nancy and Kitty in turn-of-the-century Beulah, Maine? Perhaps? But for certain, she finds some wonderful characters and sparkling moments of Gilded Age Girl-Power Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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