There comes a time in every reader's life--PFFFF! Yeah right. I am not going to start this off with some sappy story of how I wanted to better myself by reading a modern classic. The truth is I haven't read any and I wanted to for a while now. Simple as that. So I decided that I wanted to start out ...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a quiet, gentle, understated and yet at the same time unexpectedly scathing at times book that offers a window (or a view from a fire escape, if you please) into a little corner of the world a century ago, and yet still has the power to resonate with readers of today. Aft...
This book is depressing. Very depressing. The very little, and rushed, amount of Happily Ever After did nothing to lessen the feeling of hopelessness that overtook me after the first 10 pages. This book is roughly 90% sadness, 5% deaths, 3% okay and 2% good.That being made clear, it wasn't the kind ...
For pure nostalgia I've given it 4 stars--it's just that I remember loving this book so much when I was a teenager, a really, really long time ago, even though I can't remember it now.
I was really disappointed in this book. I excepted it to be great but it was really kind of a nightmare to read. Despite the credit it gets for being a really well written, classic novel, I thought it wasn't too well written, with repetitive, almost perfunctory sentence structure and besides a few a...
Oh man, I loved this book. It is quiet and wonderful, following the life of Francie, a poor girl in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her story is both individual and universal, as all good stories should be. I only knew the bare facts of pre-WWI New York (Tammany Hall, tenements) so it was interesting to ...
It's brilliant!!! It is very bittersweet, not too sad, not too joyous. It has a simple, even pacing and the characters are very real on the page. It is simply a must read! And it offers a feel-good ending.Devlin
Inspiring story. I wish I had the steel of the Rommely women.I could definitely relate to the part about working young, and having to grow up a little bit faster than your peers. Like Francie, I also had to drop out of school to work, to help out my family, and send my younger siblings to school. Th...
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