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Sep 21, 2023posie12 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Found it long and frustrating but finished it.
Sep 17, 2022IrisLover77inGA rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I just finished this book. It is 750 pages of small print. The author could have shortened the novel if she had written just a novel. But she does not seem to be able to make up her mind if she is writing a history book, a novel, or a…
Jul 31, 2020rab1953 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I am in awe of Ann-Marie MacDonald. She brings together so many current themes, makes them dramatic, and makes them matter to me as a reader in a fluid and coherent storyline. Some elements of the story are intensely uncomfortable, and…
Jun 26, 2019lobster50 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Did not see how the crow flies until the end and then I was shocked. Great book.
Jan 03, 2019wildmamamoo rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Loved this book! Especially for anyone who experiences self doubt, fear of judgement, and wonders how their experience as a child and their parents experience as a child and so forth and so on affects their own behaviour in parenting,…
Jun 22, 2018
I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end. This author writes so well about events that happened in that particular era and is so spot on about habits, sayings, living styles and anything else you can name. It is a wonderful,…
Apr 18, 2018LexiLou2 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I greatly enjoyed the beginning of this book - I was intrigued by the history lesson and felt like I was making up for the things I missed in grade school. MacDonald has mastered writing from a child's perspective, and it is a delight to…
Apr 26, 2016Eosos rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I really just thought this book was okay, but I had to add an extra star because the writing is so wonderful. This is one of those stories that I just can't (or maybe won't, who can say) appreciate. The drama, the characters, the…
Jan 05, 2015WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
An idyllically happy air force family is posted back to Ontario after years abroad, leaving the idealized 50’s to encounter shady cold-war covert operations and a horrific murder in their small community. MacDonald writes a gripping story…
Apr 27, 2012ceedeegee57 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Although not nearly as well recieved as "Fall On Your Knees", it is a mistake to dismiss this book as an also ran. Each time I reread it I find more to love, her characters carry with them joy and heartbreak and bestow them on the reader…
Dec 19, 2011jmikesmith rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
[Warning: this is a long review, but this complex book merits it.] This is a long, thoughtful, and multi-layered novel. It was recommended to me as a good depiction of life growing up on Canadian military bases, as I did. And it is. It…
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Aug 03, 2011technojoy rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Intense and disturbing and utterly absorbing. This is one of the best books I've ever read.
Nov 03, 2010MissTeen1980 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is the BEST BOOK I have read by a Canadian Author, hands down.
Sep 21, 2010Iridollae rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Beautiful, in an aching sort of way. MacDonald has a way with words; she took me back in time and far far away from the very beginning, then led me slowly back again... She exposes sensitive, and often disturbing themes, intricately woven…
Jul 21, 2010kyokochurch rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
One of my favourite books of all time. Ann-Marie MacDonald is a genius at character and plot development. This novel is at once a coming of age story, an alarmingly realistic portrait of abuse, an interesting depiction of Canadian military…
Nov 19, 20090922 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
couldn't put it down.
Sep 03, 2009cbarr rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A fascinating fictionalization of the Steven Truscott case.
Nov 21, 2008
Ann-Marie MacDonald captured the feel and flavour of a child's life on Canadian military bases in the 50's-60's.
Aug 12, 2008jalger rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Not for the faint of heart, may be disturbing, but I loved this book.