02-09-2004, 07:42 AM
BLACKBIRD HOUSE by Alice Hoffman
Situated near a fishing town in Massachusetts, Blackbird House was originally built by John Hadley
as a monument to his love for Coral, his wife and anchor. The name holds the key to a tragedy that befalls these first owners, and over the two centuries that follow their sadness is layered with hope and happiness as well as sorrow.
THE WAITRESS by Melissa Nathan
Katie is petite, but not too skinny, smart but reassuringly ditzy and ambitious but stuck in a career rut, spinning her wheels as a waitress. She is also hopeless with men - so hopeless that photos of her and her doomed dates cover the restaurant's meat fridge. So when she is introduced to handsome smoothie Dan, he seems set to go the way of the rest of them - until he pops up as her new boss.
SLEEP PALE SISTER by Joanne Harris
Big on melodrama and gothic appeal . this book tells the story of Effie an artist model just 9 when Victorian artist Henry Chester decides she is the perfect woman. Moulded to his liking and plied with laudanum, Effie eventually becomes Mrs Chester. She then drowns her sorrows in a affair that beckons her into an underworld of prostitution, deceit and murder.
THE MAMMOTH CHEESE by Sheri Holman
Three chimneys is an unremarkable American hamlet, but when local mother Manda Smith gives birth to a record-breaking 11 babies at one the gaze of the nations swings its way. They even get a visit from presidential candidate Governor Adams Brooke, whish is where real heroine Margaret Prickett comes in. Margaret a small dairy farmer facing bankruptcy decides to highlight her plight by producing an enormous cheese becoming so caught up with the idea that she barely notices her long-time admirer and neglects her teenage daughter.
Also a few i got but have not reviewed them...
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
A Map of the World, by Jane Hamilton
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian
Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts
*White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
*Vinegar Hill, by A. Manette Ansay
HAPPY READING!!!!!! :thumbs:
Situated near a fishing town in Massachusetts, Blackbird House was originally built by John Hadley
as a monument to his love for Coral, his wife and anchor. The name holds the key to a tragedy that befalls these first owners, and over the two centuries that follow their sadness is layered with hope and happiness as well as sorrow.
THE WAITRESS by Melissa Nathan
Katie is petite, but not too skinny, smart but reassuringly ditzy and ambitious but stuck in a career rut, spinning her wheels as a waitress. She is also hopeless with men - so hopeless that photos of her and her doomed dates cover the restaurant's meat fridge. So when she is introduced to handsome smoothie Dan, he seems set to go the way of the rest of them - until he pops up as her new boss.
SLEEP PALE SISTER by Joanne Harris
Big on melodrama and gothic appeal . this book tells the story of Effie an artist model just 9 when Victorian artist Henry Chester decides she is the perfect woman. Moulded to his liking and plied with laudanum, Effie eventually becomes Mrs Chester. She then drowns her sorrows in a affair that beckons her into an underworld of prostitution, deceit and murder.
THE MAMMOTH CHEESE by Sheri Holman
Three chimneys is an unremarkable American hamlet, but when local mother Manda Smith gives birth to a record-breaking 11 babies at one the gaze of the nations swings its way. They even get a visit from presidential candidate Governor Adams Brooke, whish is where real heroine Margaret Prickett comes in. Margaret a small dairy farmer facing bankruptcy decides to highlight her plight by producing an enormous cheese becoming so caught up with the idea that she barely notices her long-time admirer and neglects her teenage daughter.
Also a few i got but have not reviewed them...
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
A Map of the World, by Jane Hamilton
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian
Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts
*White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
*Vinegar Hill, by A. Manette Ansay
HAPPY READING!!!!!! :thumbs: