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Little Bee

Chris Cleave

Start date: March 1, 2010

Finish date: March 31, 2010

Discussion: Themed Reading

Why we're reading this: Choosen for the monthly read
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Mar 06, 2011 Marlaina McCauslin rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, fiction, historical-fiction, contemporary

The story line was so-so. a couple goes to Nigera (such a wonderful tourist attraction I knoww!) to renew their relationship after the wife cheated on the husband, they save a girl by chopping off the wife's middle finger. So 2 odd years later this girl who was saved in Nigeria, just got out illegally from a dentention center to find her rescuers. yet the husband killed himself, so the wife has to deal with her, a son who will only wear a batman suit and only be called Batman, and her job.

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Feb 22, 2010 Juli rated it really liked it

This was one of those eye-opening, heart-wrenching sort of stories that I really shouldn't read right before bed because it keeps my brain going.

I loved the book. Wish the language was a little cleaner--don't I always? ...more

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Jun 11, 2010 Renata rated it it was ok

Don't know what to say about this book. At first I loved it - read 90 pages the first day, and I'm a slow reader. After that, I just lost interest and couldn't wait for it to be over. In the end, I just didn't like it. ...more

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