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The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey

Start date: December 1, 2013

Finish date: December 31, 2013

Discussion: Past Reads

Why we're reading this: Our regular group read for December 2013.
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Feb 23, 2013 Sandra Heinzman rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-club, favorites, best-seller-fiction, 2012-gcabc, fiction

Wow, what a wonderful book! The writing is lovely, the story is magical, and it's a great discussion book for a book club. It is in my top 10 of books read in 2014 and I can't believe I didn't read it sooner. I highly recommend this book. ...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Sofia rated it really liked it

Shelves: once-owned-gave-away, read-2012, fiction-womens

Darling fairy tale! With an older couple, Mabel and Jack, who lost their own child 10 years earlier at birth, they build a "snow child" one night in a moment of laughter and love. Hence, the little snow girl comes to life. The little girl comes in and out of their lives for the next several years, only appearing to them during the winter months. As the story progresses you see all the characters becoming more loving, more content, and finding happiness with each other, in a way that only the sno ...more

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Jun 19, 2012 Lauren rated it really liked it

Shelves: tbr-july2012

This is the type of book that is able to make you shiver even while reading on a beach in 90 plus degree heat. Eerie and enjoyable.

Update:

Now that I am not trying to type a review on my iphone I will expand.

I started this book early one morning because I was staying with a friend and she was still asleep. 3 hours later I had finished the entire book. I had NO desire to put it down. So why didn't I rate it 5 stars?

The beginning of the book was 5 star worthy, toward the end I found the book a li ...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Sandy rated it it was amazing

As sad as it is happy, like many fairy tales, this book is a wonderful read. Can you be happy without the sadness? Can you have good without bad. Not only is this book a fairy tale it is also the lesson in life that we all learn. You have to have the bad with the good to know the and appreciate the good. Written beautifully, you can feel the cold and the snow and the isolation, and yet you can see the beauty in all of it.

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