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The Cadence of Gypsies
by
Barbara Casey (Goodreads Author)
On her 18th birthday Carolina Lovel learned that she was adopted and was given a letter written by her birth mother in an unknown language. After years of research she travels to Italy on a mission to find the truth about her past. Carolina is accompanied by three extremely gifted but mischievous students the FIGs from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women. In an...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
November 15th 2010
by Hungry Goat Press
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Carolina was taken from her gypsy mother at a young age and sent to American where she was adopted. At eighteen her adoptive parents give her a box. Inside this box Carolina discovers the truth about her birth, that she was adopted, and with help from her boyfriend, they begin research in finding out who Carolina really is. With the odd items in the box, she finds an old paper w/ script that matches an ancient manuscript that scholars have gone mad trying to decipher.
After graduating college, C...more
After graduating college, C...more
What I like most about this book is the adventure I got to on with Carolina. I loved reading about her past and discovering secrets. The plot at times did seem slow but then is would pick up once the reader got to the secrets.
Carolina takes a job after graduating and is put in charge of three talented girls. These girls definitely needed guidance. Carolina is a great mentor to these girl. The girls took to Carolina right away and helps her find out who she was. The girls use their gift and come...more
Carolina takes a job after graduating and is put in charge of three talented girls. These girls definitely needed guidance. Carolina is a great mentor to these girl. The girls took to Carolina right away and helps her find out who she was. The girls use their gift and come...more
I'd like to give The Cadence of Gypsies a 3.89, if that were possible. I loved the magical story of gypsies and girls who connect in friendship because of their unique abilities. It was just a little bit slow in the beginning. The characters were entertaining, and once the storyline got moving, I found myself staying up later than I'd like so I could finish the story.
I believe Barbara Casey could have written more about the character relationships to create the idea of an even tighter bond (in...more
I believe Barbara Casey could have written more about the character relationships to create the idea of an even tighter bond (in...more
I enjoyed it, but found it slightly predictable. I felt like the character development was slow in the beginning and kept being said in different ways through the middle of the book. With great exception to Larry his involvement is very unclear until the end.
I found it a quick read. Enjoyable but not something I'll be bragging about reading at work.
I found it a quick read. Enjoyable but not something I'll be bragging about reading at work.
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Barbara Casey is the author of seven award-winning novels and numerous articles, poems, and short stories. She lives on a mountain in northwest Georgia with her husband, her 6-pound Maltese named Hemingway, and Benton, a hound-mix who adopted her.
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“Carolina removed an old and creased single sheet of paper, yellowed with age, that was now carefully protected in clear, acid-free paper. She handed it to Dara. "This was folded up in a parik-til, in the box with my birth certificate."
"A parik-til?" asked Jennifer.
"It is a small pouch that is filled with things to bring good luck or blessings." She held up the cloth bag and opened it for the girls to see. "Gypsies use them, but so do Native Americans as well as people from Central and South America and other parts of the world. When I got it, I had no idea what it was or what it meant. I knew the folded piece of paper was old and somehow had to be important to me since my birth parents had included it with the other things they wanted me to have." Carolina stood up and walked over to the window. How well she remembered the overwhelming emotions she felt when she first saw those pages of the Voynich Manuscript in the book she was reading, and then realizing that the ancient script was the same as what was on the piece of paper that had been preserved in the parik-til--her parik-til. "Anyway, as soon as I saw the photographs of some of the manuscript pages in the book I was reading, I made the connection immediately. It was the same script as what was on this sheet of paper that I had been given."
All three FIGS crowded closely together to look at Carolina's treasure.”
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"A parik-til?" asked Jennifer.
"It is a small pouch that is filled with things to bring good luck or blessings." She held up the cloth bag and opened it for the girls to see. "Gypsies use them, but so do Native Americans as well as people from Central and South America and other parts of the world. When I got it, I had no idea what it was or what it meant. I knew the folded piece of paper was old and somehow had to be important to me since my birth parents had included it with the other things they wanted me to have." Carolina stood up and walked over to the window. How well she remembered the overwhelming emotions she felt when she first saw those pages of the Voynich Manuscript in the book she was reading, and then realizing that the ancient script was the same as what was on the piece of paper that had been preserved in the parik-til--her parik-til. "Anyway, as soon as I saw the photographs of some of the manuscript pages in the book I was reading, I made the connection immediately. It was the same script as what was on this sheet of paper that I had been given."
All three FIGS crowded closely together to look at Carolina's treasure.”
“Hurry up, he'll be coming back pretty soon!"
Lynda spelled with a "y" Corgill, who was two years behind Dara, Mackenzie, and Jennifer, and had just completed her sophomore year, squeezed the hot glue gun into the door lock of the headmaster's office. Shelby Andrews, her accomplice and the newest resident to be accepted at Wood Rose, stood watch.
"I see the lights of the truck. Hurry! He's coming back! Are you finished?"
Lynda gave the metal apparatus one last squeeze, filling the lock with the quick-drying cement glue guaranteed to harden on contact. "Finished."
In the soft illumination of the crescent moon high overhead, the two girls, barefooted and wearing dark blue pajamas, ran across the lawn crisscrossed by dark, elongated shadows and dampened by night-cooled air to the maintenance shed where they placed the glue gun on the top shelf where it was normally kept. With their task completed, they quickly returned to the dormitory, to the far end from where Ms. Larkins slept, and crawled through the open window. Within minutes they were back in their rooms, in their individual beds, and sound asleep. The sleep of innocent angels.
It would soon be light; and Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women would start another day.”
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Lynda spelled with a "y" Corgill, who was two years behind Dara, Mackenzie, and Jennifer, and had just completed her sophomore year, squeezed the hot glue gun into the door lock of the headmaster's office. Shelby Andrews, her accomplice and the newest resident to be accepted at Wood Rose, stood watch.
"I see the lights of the truck. Hurry! He's coming back! Are you finished?"
Lynda gave the metal apparatus one last squeeze, filling the lock with the quick-drying cement glue guaranteed to harden on contact. "Finished."
In the soft illumination of the crescent moon high overhead, the two girls, barefooted and wearing dark blue pajamas, ran across the lawn crisscrossed by dark, elongated shadows and dampened by night-cooled air to the maintenance shed where they placed the glue gun on the top shelf where it was normally kept. With their task completed, they quickly returned to the dormitory, to the far end from where Ms. Larkins slept, and crawled through the open window. Within minutes they were back in their rooms, in their individual beds, and sound asleep. The sleep of innocent angels.
It would soon be light; and Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women would start another day.”
