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Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee

Start date: February 15, 2017

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Jul 24, 2009 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mood-boosting-books, poverty, the-classics-club, on-the-road, memoir

Laurie Lee grew up in a rural part of England during the
time just after the Great War. His father abandoned his mother with
eight children to raise. Lee was almost always hungry and cold. But
life never seemed hard; somehow it seemed joyous and delightful.

I was especially taken with the chapter about the devilments children
and young people got into during Lee's time. Back in Lee's day, as
today, terrible things happened. But somehow the village and its
people just seemed to deal with them, not makin ...more

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Nov 23, 2013 mstan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: british, memoir, public-transport, src-spring-2014

"Though white and withered, they were active enough, but they ordered their lives without haste. The old woman cooked, and threw grain to the chickens, and hung out her washing on bushes; the old man fetched wood and chopped it with a billhook, did a bit of gardening now and then, or just sat on a seat outside his door and gazed at the valley, or slept. When summer came they bottled fruit, and when winter came they ate it. They did nothing more than was necessary to live, but did it fondly, with ...more

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