With profound love comes profound despair and vice versa. At least, this is the theme running through Rebecca Rasmussen’s Evergreen. For every moment of happiness and love, there are equal moments of the most debilitating sadness. It is how one balances on this seesaw that dictates whether one is go...
I think the title made me believe there would be magic in this book, something to do with birds. And that is why you don't assume content based on cover.I enjoyed about half of this story. I liked little Milly and little Twiss, I liked that one summer their asthmatic, insecure, and bullying cousin B...
This novel was very readable and quite compelling. I enjoyed the narrator's tone and the girl's wit throughout. Overall, though, it wasn't remarkable. There were a few minor problems with plot/timeline and utimately, I did not feel that Milly would have given Asa to Bett (or that Asa would have ...
This book is very quiet, and a little slow, but it has some payoff. I liked it, but if my mom hadn't recommended it, I'm not sure I would have stayed with it. I just couldn't figure out where it was going. The end was very bittersweet, though. 3.5 stars.
Lovely story of two sisters and the summer that changed their lives forever in a small town in Wisconsin.
I just couldn't get into it. The premise seemed ok, but the father being a golf pro and all the stuff about golf didn't seem plausible to me, and it got boring after a bit.
First off, I must disclose that I won this on Read It Forward…Now with that out of the way, I had a really difficult time getting into this book in the beginning. It really failed to capture my interest from the start. I frequently found myself putting it aside for other books which I had started la...
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