The Light Between Oceans in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Mar 19, 2015 Tori rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2015, 1read-in-my-40s

LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!! Cried a lot.

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"I choose to," he said. "I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget."

"But it's not that easy."

"Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once." To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the pe ...more

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Aug 22, 2015 Jill Wolfe rated it liked it · review of another edition

Well written but tedious at times

There were so many places in this book where the prose was so well-written it made me catch my breath - and so many times I thought to myself, "Can we just get on with it?" (The story itself.) Overall not a bad read. ...more

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Jun 01, 2013 Dana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: parent-and-child, fiction, historical-fiction, book-club

I cried through the entire second half. Heartbreaking and hard to put down.

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Jun 15, 2013 Miquela rated it really liked it

Shelves: sony-reader

3.5

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Nov 05, 2013 Katrina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

I am calling this the best book I have read thus far this year, granted it is only the third book I read. The story was very compelling. I found that I didn't like some of the characters some of the time, but I thought they were written in line with their circumstances. I can't wait to discuss this in my book club. ...more

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