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The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough

Start date: April 1, 2020

Finish date: June 30, 2020

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: 2nd Quarter 2020 Long Read
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May 13, 2020 Roshio rated it it was ok

Shelves: couldn-t-finish, library

Maybe its lockdown but I've recently been tapping out of books early, i just have no desire to invest time and emotions only to have some tragic soliloquy at the end where the heroine sits alone crying 'i looooooved you'. ...more

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Oct 05, 2011 Trisha rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, drama, romance

When I first picked up this book, I was rather expecting a tawdry melodrama of a love affair between a young woman and a priest. It turned out to be so much better! The multi-generational saga followed the lives of the Cleary family, the children as they grew into adulthood, and then their children as they grew. Though the "love affair" played a role, it seemed like the real story was in the depth and detail of the family members as they carved a life for themselves in the harsh climate of Austr ...more

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Oct 13, 2014 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nook-simple-touch, bedtime, redheads, nook-mobile-app, purchased-with-money, 70s, 2015, read-harder-challenge-2015, family-saga

Completes the Guilty Pleasure task of the Read Harder book challenge.

This started out a spellbinding five stars for me and then fizzled halfway through.

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