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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,
Rebecca
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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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Took a little bit to get into this but i ended up liking it a lot. Recommend passing on the audio, the narrator sounds disinterested in the book, not a good pairing!
Sisters stay together- its a great book for sisters and families where you need ea... " Read more of this review » |
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My original review is below so I will just review the audio version of this re-read for bookclub.
Xe Sands truly embodied these two sisters her narration was soft and wistful as these sisters are, her delivery of this beautiful book was spot on. I... " Read more of this review » |
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I was touched by this book. It is moving and written with a heartbreaking understanding of what it is to love and to lose, as well as how life changes as individuals grow up and lose their wild innocence. Milly and Twiss, their young summers and t...
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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
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
“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
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
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"Lover of all things old" awesome. Feel free to visit my poetry website sometime. http://www.theskyinsideyou.com
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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.
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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
