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Families are the places we share the most happy times and the most miserable times, the greatest joys and the most pain, places where people lift us up to become our best selves and tear us down to our worst. Maine is a book about families.
There is wisdom about families in this book. Here’s a little about having a child:
“No one had told Kathleen about the dark parts of motherhood. You gave birth and people brought over the sweetest little shoes and pale pink swaddling blankets. But then you were ...more
There is wisdom about families in this book. Here’s a little about having a child:
“No one had told Kathleen about the dark parts of motherhood. You gave birth and people brought over the sweetest little shoes and pale pink swaddling blankets. But then you were ...more
Maine was tiresome. No real character development--all seemed cardboardish. This book also meets another of my pet peeves [which is apparently one of those of the "author" in Thirteenth Tale who said "my books sell because they have a beginning, middle and end]. It seems today that you send in your completed manuscript and then a college intern drops the chapters on the floor and reassembles them in any order. This book jumps around and might have been better told with fewer attempts to be so "[
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Sep 12, 2011
Stacy
marked it as to-read
Oct 24, 2012
Traci
marked it as check-these-out-further
May 06, 2016
Stefanie
rated it
it was amazing
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Jul 17, 2016
Suzanne
marked it as to-read
Mar 06, 2020
Keeley
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Jun 19, 2024
Amber
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