This book was an escape from my usual paranormal smut and urban fantasy adventures, and it is so worth the change in scenery. I had to read the book for my Vulnerable Children class, where I am learning about the child welfare system. It was a poignant tale of one girl’s tumultuous journey through t...
While I enjoyed the film adaptation, I've tried three times now to read this one, and just simply can not get through it. Perhaps Ingrid reminds me a bit too much of my own mother, who knows?
Astrid Magnussen's mother, Ingrid, is strong, self-relying, and unsympathetic to weakness of any kind. She also has strong rules against love and the way it should be properly handled. Ingrid is Astrid's world, everything she knows she learned from her mother, but she finds herself teaching herself ...
This book has a particlar resonance for me as my daughter and I read it at the same time.In the young adult novel, White Oleander,, by Janet Fitch, the mother is neither absent nor particularly moral. In this work, it is the mother who strays off the path. The roles of the mother, Ingrid, and the da...
I'm mildly surprised to find myself giving this book four stars, but what can I say? I ended up really liking a lot of things about the story and the author in general. It would be easy enough to go through and pick out all the flaws in the story, but that's already been done. Astrid's story is e...
Somehow I'm not surprised that this has been on Oprah's book club. It's the kind of book she'd promote. Not unfairly, because it's a good book, and an important story, even if it is a hard one to read.
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