Needing a change and some adventure in her life, Margot Harrington felt a calling to travel to Florence in 1966 to aid in the restoration of art and books after the famous flood. Many foreigners arrived in the city, but Margot was a little removed from the other “Mud Angels” because she was an expe...
I was thinking about this book the other day and I realized that I’ve never reviewed it. I decided immediately I needed to fix that. First of all, let me say that I think the synopsis makes this book sound a little more risqué than it really is. I thought this book might be graphic, but the friend t...
First and foremost I wanted to say that I won this book off of Goodreads.comThis book, for me, was like a car wreck. It's horrible, horrendous, and messy, but you just can't look away. The book was horribly written to the extent it made it really hard to follow in some places. Hellenga wrote the boo...
I had to stop listening halfway through. It was boring. I couldn't care about the characters enough to finish.
Growing up in small town Michigan, Martin Dijksterhuis thought he knew everything about what he was going to do with life - run the family business, apple orchards, for his father. His mom had other plans for him - to attend the University of Chicago, her alma mater, and really make something of hi...
OK, I have now finished, and what I wrote below still holds true. Furthermore, he so very well depicts family relationships: how parents feel as their children grow up, how kids relate to their parents as they grow up, how husband and wife relationships change as time rolls on and how nothing stays ...
Hellenga is my all time favorite writer! Read this or the Fall of a Sparrow!
I loved this book b/c it ties you to different geographic places. not just Italy and the American Midwest. It is about music, bats, love and feelings between children and their parents. Who has the harder time letting go - the child or the parent?
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