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Akaivyleaf
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Username: Akaivyleaf
Post Number: 7
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 09:10 am: | 
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Has anybody read this book and care to discuss. This is Ms. Scott's debut novel. |
Anita
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Username: Anita
Post Number: 7
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2004 - 06:34 pm: |
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I'm starting it this weekend. I'd love to discuss it when I'm done. |
Anita
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Username: Anita
Post Number: 11
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 09:18 pm: |
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Akaivyleaf:
I enjoyed Sophronia's book. I don't want to spoil it for others, but I liked the way she dealt with Linc's downward spiral. He wasn't the "typical" brother to experience abuse.
Let me know what you thought about Linc and the other family members. |
Akaivyleaf
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Post Number: 9
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 05, 2004 - 11:35 am: |
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I thought that she (Ms. Scott) brought a difficult issue to the light. She touched on the fact that so many families ignore abuse and secret wish that it will just go away instead of dealing with the problem as a family. I liked that Linc WAS typical, we're just not used to reading about him. A functional drug addict and the effects that he had on himself as well as his family are things that we don't discuss too much. Maybe if mom and dad had sat down with him and with the family, there would have been a few different outcomes.
The sisters were a trip... I went through a wide range of emotion with them, I could have cried with them, slapped them, stopped talking to them and wanted to shake some sense into them too.
Overall I thought Ms. Scott did a great job of keeping it real. |
Anita
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Username: Anita
Post Number: 12
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 05, 2004 - 08:09 pm: |
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OK, I really wanted to cut Haze a time or two. Ella, well, I won't go there. Do you feel that Crita inadvertently enabled Linc before the drug abuse started? I mean, her reverence for him was haunting. It's one thing to admire a sibling, but Linc was like the second coming of Christ.
Thanks for the correction. I guess his actions were typical; we just don't read about them often. I knew I had been reading too much when remnants of the characters from Eden, Ohio, floated into my mind as I read this book. :-) |
Akaivyleaf
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Username: Akaivyleaf
Post Number: 11
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 09:13 am: |
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Crita had an undying devotion to her brother. It was almost obsessive and as he took a downward spiral she enabled him to take that journey. She would do anything for him and to some degree he used that against her. He was cunning and manipulative to his family whether that was his intention or not. He knew what he could get away with until his wife put her foot down. What I couldn't understand was Crita ruining her life for her brother. Any chance at having a mature relationship with Tree was overshadowed by her obsession with being there for her brother.
Eden Ohio, I couldn't get through. I tried repeatedly but I couldn't finish it. It remains on a very short list of books that I've not been able to read. |
Anita
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Username: Anita
Post Number: 13
Registered: 02-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 01:26 pm: |
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Please stick with it. I, like Tee, found myself reinserting articles Shawne omitted. Gosh, I loved the way she worked the generational threads. I loved Jeremiah and...ok, I forgot you aren't done. Maybe we can discuss this one as well.
I'm on to "Camilla's Roses" by Bernice McFadden and "Leaving Cecil Street" by Diane McKinney-Whetstone.
Happy Reading. |
Akaivyleaf
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Username: Akaivyleaf
Post Number: 13
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 03:42 pm: |
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I'll give it another shot, just don't know when I'll get around to it. I have a problem with having to insert text where the author omitted it. I want to know why she wrote it that way-makes me feel inferior that I don't understand the reasoning behind it.
I'm currently reading Hot Boyz but I'm going through a bit of a reading slump right now. I much prefer to sleep than read.
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