June thinks of herself as lucky. She’s married to an attractive man, a chef at one of the more upscale restaurants in her small town. Every day she goes to work at the cafeteria at the elementary school, where she enjoys and understands the kids. She comes home to eat a meal her loving husband [...]
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Alison Clement’s Twenty Questions
Posted in Book Reviews, Death and Dying, families, tagged children, crime, Oregon, schools, small town, violence on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Hearts of Horses
Posted in Book Reviews, Coming of Age, Death and Dying, westerns, tagged 1900s, coming_of_age, farm_life, horses, Oregon, westerns on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When was the last time you read a book that kept you up late, though you knew you should get to sleep? The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss was such a book for me. Martha Lessen is a sturdy girl with a love for horses. In 1917, when many of the men in Eastern [...]
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