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The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,

Patricia Reilly Giff (Foreword)

Start date: September 1, 2011

Finish date: September 30, 2011

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Dec 13, 2011 Stephen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, teen-reads, historical-fiction, z-read-in-2011, pulitzers

I grew up in a farm community and while I didn't live on a farm, most of those that I grew up with raised livestock that was then slaughtered for food. I've always wondered how they stood it.

In this book Jody loves hunting, loves the various foods that his family gleens from the Florida backwoods but hates the actual killing. When he adopts a fawn it's clear and inevitable what's coming but Jody, with the innocence of a child lives in the now and can't forsee the outcome. This story won a Pulit ...more

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Sep 15, 2011 Vicky rated it liked it

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I can't say that it was an enjoyable read for me. The main obstacle was the dialogs and the attempt to recreate a realistic spoken language which made it at times almost impossible to understand for me. I had to read most of it out loud since it made the "guessing" at what the "real words" must be much easier. As I progressed through the novel it got a little bit easier, but still not enough to enjoy.

The detail with which the plants were described was also at times too much for me and had me gro ...more

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