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Annie with Blonde Curls

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

April 26, 2020 by randirock Leave a Comment

This is the second time I’ve read a book this year and not known until the end that it was based on a true story. Just like my experience with Grace is Gone, I got to the end of Before We Were Yours to find A Note From the Author about the real life story of Georgia Tann. Tann is considered the “Mother of Modern Adoption,” which sounds like a really beautiful moniker, and in many ways, her work benefited children throughout the world. However, the dark […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adoption, Annie, Children, Lisa Wingate, orphan, orphans

randirock's CBR12 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adoption, Annie, Children, Lisa Wingate, orphan, orphans ·
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You’d have expected me to be just a minor character in this saga

April 29, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

This is a tough one to review. I really liked reading it, but in the end, it felt as though the exposition was finally wrapped up, and now I was ready for the story. But actually, the book was over. Not that there isn’t enough movement in Eileen, it’s just that the narrator tells us very early in the book that this is the story of her final days trapped in her terrible and sad life as she was raised – or more accurately, grew […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alcholism, bulemia, cbr9, Fiction, juvenile detention, juvie, loneliness, Moshfegh, new york, orphan, Ottessa Moshfegh, police, sexual repression, small community

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alcholism, bulemia, cbr9, Fiction, juvenile detention, juvie, loneliness, Moshfegh, new york, orphan, Ottessa Moshfegh, police, sexual repression, small community ·
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