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Bezig met laden... Beyond the Bougainvillea (editie 2011)door Dolores Durando
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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. I received this as a book to review, and hoped to like it. However while I enjoyed the first chapter, the book just seemed to hop along from one scene to the next with little substance. Large passages of endless and useless dialogue. The story was very predictable, pedestrian with nothing new. A good read for a teenager or young adult. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
She found her place in a turbulent era of deep passions, heartbreaking sacrifices, and grand dreams. When scholarly, smart Mary Margaret is sixteen, her father marries her off to a drunken neighbor in return for a tract of land. The year is 1924, and Mary Margaret's motherless childhood has already been hard as a farm girl on the desolate prairies of North Dakota. Abused and helpless, the new Mrs. "Marge" Garrity seems destined for a tragic fate. But Marge is determined to make her life count, no matter what. Her escape from her brutal marriage takes her to California, where she struggles to survive the Great Depression and soon answers the lure of the state's untamed northern half. There, embraced by the rough-and-ready people who built the great Ruck-a-chucky Dam on the American River, she begins to find her true mission in life and the possibility for love and happiness with an Army Corp engineer of Cherokee Indian descent. Author Dolores Durando knows Marge's world very well. She grew up ninety years ago on the plains of North Dakota. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I fell in love with Marge she is a strong woman yet so kind and loving towards everyone. Her life motto “What’s done is done, now get on with it.” It is how she lived her life no matter what life threw at her she picked herself up and dusted herself off and got on with it. The way she lived her life was inspirational I would love to have her as a friend and can only hope I could treat others with an ounce of the kindness and grace Marge showed to others.
The author of this book is a 90 year old woman and this is her first book and I hope that she writes more! Marge is a character that will stay with me for a long time and I am so sad to be leaving her now that the book is over. This book is at times sad and painful but so very inspirational and uplifting. I highly recommend this one it is a great story whose characters will stay with you long after you put this book down!
5 Stars
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