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Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline

Start date: September 1, 2014

Finish date: September 30, 2014

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May 30, 2013 Lisa of Hopewell rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2013

Read 80 pages without drawing breath or moving! It's living up to the hype at Ladies Home Journal's book club! Very good, as I imagined, very emotional. As a mother thru adoption the story resonated with my own children's experiences even all these years later. The "modern" story was a bit too contrived, but it was ok to bring the story along.

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Dec 10, 2013 Neila rated it it was amazing

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It gave me a hopeful feeling, a feeling that things eventually work out as they are supposed to. In this book, a young girl was in foster care. She had been moved around from home to home and felt no one really cared about her. She was to do community service for stealing a book and ended up helping a 90-year-old woman clean out her attic. In the process of going through boxes of what she considered junk, she learned the story of the old woman's life. The old woma ...more

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Jul 20, 2015 Georgia Carvalho rated it liked it

While I really liked the historical side of the story, the present day element felt more than a little forced and the characters were too flat, almost like caricatures, as if they were an afterthought. The foster mother, the housekeeper and the boyfriend were not portrayed the same way that the historical characters were. The dual timeline felt a bit forced.

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Jul 10, 2014 Kay Green rated it liked it

Shelves: bookclub

The first 2/3 of this book was ho hum for me. I have heard the story many times before - the young girl in a bad foster home situation. But when the Vivian and Molly connected the story became much more interesting. I love the idea that generations have things to share with each other and when the story went in that direction, it was delightful. Plus it finished with an awesome ending.

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