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Rebecca Rasmussen
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I can't stop talking about this book: The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey. It is so lovely and thoughtful, I hope you pick it up. You're in for a treat. Another book I am loving is The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. What are all of you reading these days? I am always taking suggestions!
XOXO + 84 degree hugs from LA today,
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The Bird Sisters
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"In the novel The Bird Sisters, two spinsters recall the fateful 1947 summer that turned their lives upside down. Rasmussen shares an image of her muse—her grandmother." ...More
"In the novel The Bird Sisters, two spinsters recall the fateful 1947 summer that turned their lives upside down. Rasmussen shares an image of her muse—her grandmother." ...More
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This is the opening of my novel, which will be published by Random House next spring...:)
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This well-written book disturbed me, which is to say it made me think, a good thing. I don't expect I'll ever forget Milly and Twiss.
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Really, this is 4.5 rather than 5 stars and would be five were it not for a tiny quibble I'll mention at the end of my review.
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This debut novel, which follows the lives of spinster sisters Milly and Twiss, is full of hope and beauty, heartbreak and sacrifice, and offers wonderful surprises at every turn.
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“Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.”
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
“This book I'm reading says if you want to be as thin as a stalk of celery, then that's what you should be eating. I'm not sure I want to look like celery, but I know I don't want to look like a biscuit.”
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters: A Novel
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters: A Novel
“Bett didn't have any siblings because she said her father had preserved what was dead for too long to be able to create life. When Bet was younger and had begged for one, her father gave her a marmot he' stuffed for a man from Wyoming.
"This is your brother Christopher," he'd said, placing the marmot on Bett's pillow one night. "He doesn't talk much, so you'll have to pick up the slack there.”
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
"This is your brother Christopher," he'd said, placing the marmot on Bett's pillow one night. "He doesn't talk much, so you'll have to pick up the slack there.”
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
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“These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.”
― Emily Dickinson
― Emily Dickinson
“Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.”
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
“This book I'm reading says if you want to be as thin as a stalk of celery, then that's what you should be eating. I'm not sure I want to look like celery, but I know I don't want to look like a biscuit.”
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters: A Novel
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters: A Novel
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"Lover of all things old" awesome. Feel free to visit my poetry website sometime. http://www.theskyinsideyou.com
Thank you REBECCA:It's great to have you as a friend. My memoir, TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOT is now at Barnes and Noble.
It includes details of my birth in Alabama, youth, high school-Holmes County High School, US Navy Service, music-Hollywood, Memphis, Nashville, Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Investigation, recording and releasing the single record THEY SLEW THE DREAMER about the MLK assassination.
Paperback and Nook Book
Links to more Jongleur books and book sellers.
Hi Sarah! I am so excited to come! We are at my parents' house in Spring Green and we will be leaving shortly. So excited! Thank you for your kindness!
Looking forward to seeing you at Dragonfly Books in Decorah tonight! The owner and I both really enjoyed your book :)--Sarah Rattenborg (Dragonfly Books assistant manager.)
Hi Rebecca,Thanks for befriending this mystery author on Goodreads! Looks like we're both going to have a release about the same time--my Deadly Currents book comes out in March, 2011. I hope you'll put my existing books, A Real Basket Case and To Hell in a Handbasket, on your to-read list. If you'd like to enter a contest for a free copy of To Hell in a Handbasket, sign up for my email newsletter at: http://bethgroundwater.com/ .
- Beth
