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Ellyn Bache
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I’m sometimes amazed at the way lessons of fiction (my own included), hit us intellectually while we’re reading or writing, but don’t affect us emotionally until much later.
Case in point: if you walk through my house right now, you’ll find Transformers tangled in all the leaves and branches of my larger houseplants, courtesy of my four-year-old grandson, Adam. Transformers, based on movie char...
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The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel
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Safe Passage
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1988
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Riggs Park
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2005
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Daughters of the Sea
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2005
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Raspberry Sherbet Kisses
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Holiday Miracles: A Christmas/Hanukkah Story
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The Activist's Daughter
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1997
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Festival in Fire Season
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1992
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Over 50's Singles Night
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The Art of Saying Goodbye
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| I didn't do justice to this clever, witty, but leisurely story about "mature" people, because it's a book I wished I'd read in a few long sittings on cozy winter evenings. Instead, I read in dribs and drabs during the summer, in between stops on a bo...more | |
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| I was impressed by the way the carefully crafted language both brings the characters vividly to life and raises the level of what might otherwise be a far less appealing story. I read her next book before I read this one (it's sort of a sequel, but n...more | |
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| I was deeply impressed by Joshilyn Jackson's first two novels, "gods in Alabama" and "Between, Georgia," and "The Girl Who Stopped Swimming" didn't disappoint. Laurel is a woman who sleepwalks and sees ghosts, so when she's awakened by the ghost of h...more | |
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| I'm a great fan of Lisa Scottoline's suspense novels featuring Mary DiNunzio and the other lawyers at Bennie Rosato's Philadelphia aw firm. This novel was a departure, featuring a newspaper feature writer who is also a single mother. Interesting, but...more | |
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| Beautifully written novel about the impossibility of overcoming class distinctions in India -- but unrelentingly dark, without the sense of redemption this reader wanted badly. There is a lyrical passage used as a prologue and picked up again at the...more | |
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| I was reading another book when I started this, but left the other for later, completely captivated. This is what we all fear, isn't it? Losing ourselves to Alzheimer's disease, memory by memory, skill by skill -- and seeing it from brilliant Alice's...more | |
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“When you're down, remember your triumphs. [...] Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.”
― Ellyn Bache, The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel
― Ellyn Bache, The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel
“You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.”
― Ellyn Bache, The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel
― Ellyn Bache, The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel
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