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Two Moons in August
A year after her mother’s death, 16-year-old Sidonie and her family are still dealing with their tragic loss in different ways. Sidonie spends sleepless nights playing cards with her cat, Bogie. During the day she lies around and reads under the nose of her 19-year-old sister, Roberta, who angrily scrubs floors that are already clean and cooks meals that are inedible. Thei...more
Paperback, 158 pages
Published
March 18th 2008
by Groundwood Books
(first published 1990)
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What the book lacked in plot and length was made up for by the descriptions and wonderful atmosphere.
Maybe it's because of this lack of length that I don't feel as connected to these characters as I think I should or maybe it's just Brooks' writing style. Never really giving you a play by play of what's going on but instead leaving you to interpret what's just happened. There are no becauses to explain it to you and somehow it took me even more into the book as I re-read line and line again to a...more
Maybe it's because of this lack of length that I don't feel as connected to these characters as I think I should or maybe it's just Brooks' writing style. Never really giving you a play by play of what's going on but instead leaving you to interpret what's just happened. There are no becauses to explain it to you and somehow it took me even more into the book as I re-read line and line again to a...more
This book is a coming of age novel (not "that" kind of coming of age novel) about an almost 16 year old Sidonie. The story is quite short - in a good way. The author keeps the plot moving. I like the way it was written. I like the growth of the characters.
But I spent the entire novel trying to figure out what was going on: the characters have the strangest reactions to each other, I couldn't understand why they were acting that way! No one listens to anyone. Each character will talk and the othe...more
But I spent the entire novel trying to figure out what was going on: the characters have the strangest reactions to each other, I couldn't understand why they were acting that way! No one listens to anyone. Each character will talk and the othe...more
I recently re-read this book after many years and it's just as beautifully written and established as I remember it. The story focuses on 16 year old Sidonie as she deals with her mother's death a year after it happens. When Kieran, the nephew of a local doctor, moves into town, she not only finds herself dealing with life together with him, but also falls in love with him.
What made it appeal to me was the way the characters are crafted in such a realistic way, and each of them - particularly S...more
What made it appeal to me was the way the characters are crafted in such a realistic way, and each of them - particularly S...more
Coming of age love story. Dealing with loss and figuring out how to be a family when family has been torn apart.
Two Moons in August is a novel set in a small Canadian lakeside town during 1959. The novel is about a 16 year old girl named Sidonie, trying to cope with her mother’s sudden death which in result has left her family torn appart. A father that works too much, her 19 year old sister Roberta who believes she has to take over their mother’s role without any help, and Sidonie to spend lonely nights.
When their neighbors' son arrives, a teenage boy named Kieran, Sidonie finds her life in a never endin...more
When their neighbors' son arrives, a teenage boy named Kieran, Sidonie finds her life in a never endin...more
This was one of my favorite books when I was 16 or so; I reread it over and over and intend to read it again soon. I adore the setting (canada, 1950s, in a lakeside town that houses a TB sanatorium) and was half in love with the main character's crush- Kieran, the angry but oh so DUH-REAMY across-the-street neighbor. Rar! Beautifully written.
reread march 2011: this book just gets better with age. as an aside, i was recently digging around in some high school stuff and found a fan fiction poem th...more
reread march 2011: this book just gets better with age. as an aside, i was recently digging around in some high school stuff and found a fan fiction poem th...more
Read when I was a teenager. I remember liking it, but not much else.
All time favourite, loved when I was a teenager and still do.
What a romantic, inspiring book. I read it with interest.
Loved the relationship. Great summer read.
Loves it
Jul 07, 2009
Liz Chapman
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I love love love this book. This is one of those books that you have partially memorized because you read it several times a year. A young girl struggles to deal with her mother's death, a family torn apart by it, and young love, all at once. Sounds a little complicated, but it all ties together really well. Powerful and moving story.
Just altogether i loved this book. It was amazing. And i couldn't stop reading it. I don't know how i could ever describe it to someone. They would have to read it for themselves.
Jul 30, 2009
Heidi
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one of my favorite books from my adolescence. i must have read and reread this a dozen times. great descriptions, interesting plot. enough tear-jerking to make you want to call your mom.
the sort of ya love story i'll always enjoy, no matter how old i am.
Mar 27, 2013
Marceline
marked it as to-read-maybe
Mar 01, 2013
Eddy Allen
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Critically acclaimed playwright, novelist and short fiction writer Martha Brooks was born and raised in a medical family on the grounds of the now defunct Manitoba Sanatorium at Ninette, Manitoba and resides with her husband, Brian, in Winnipeg.
She has penned award-winning short stories and several powerful novels for young readers, as well as several plays, all of which deal with the universal th...more
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She has penned award-winning short stories and several powerful novels for young readers, as well as several plays, all of which deal with the universal th...more
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