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The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?
So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidde ...more
So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidde ...more
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Puiki knyga :) Rekomenduoju tiems, kurie ieško kažko neįprasto ir kartu prasmingo.
Knyga visai intriguojanti, gražiai kompoziciškai įrėminta. Nors veikėjų gana daug, svarbiausios mintys pateikiamos ne tiesiogiai ir banaliai per siužetą, o gražiai ryškėja tarp eilučių. Apie pamirštų dalykų grožį ir neprarandamą galimybę atsitokėti gyventi gyvenimo gėrybių. Su šiek tiek liūdesio ir daug jaukumo. Istorija kiek ištęsta, galėtų būti trumpesnė: kelios siužetinės linijos, tad lėčiau skaitant ne visada paprasta sekti vardus ir šalutinių veikėjų nuotykius. Tačiau nėra tiek ištęsta, kad
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Dar neteko skaityti taip tikroviškai ir vykusiai perteiktos skausmingos lietuvių emigrantų istorijos (ar girdi, Rūta Sepetys?). Ir apskritai, romaną perskaityti įkalbino mama, kuriai jis labai patiko; pasičiupau šią knygą iš dalies jai pamaloninti, kaip neįpareigojantį skaitalą - ir susidūriau su tikrai subtilia mirties, netekties ir atminties temas nuostabiai nušviečiančia istorija. Maža to, ji dar ir (šiek tiek) pagrįsta tikrais faktais.
Puiki knyga. Pasakojama istorija, kaip svetimi žmonės gali tapti artimi kaip šeima. Knyga papildyta pasaulio rekordais.
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| Ladies & Literature: Official March 2018 Book Discussion: The One-in-a-Million Boy | 19 | 36 | Apr 30, 2018 07:26PM | |
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Monica Wood is the author of four works of fiction, most recently The One-in-a-Million-Boy, which won a 2017 Nautilus Award (Gold) and the 2017 fiction prize from the New England Society in the City of New York. She also is the author of Any Bitter Thing which spent 21 weeks on the American Booksellers Association extended bestseller list and was named a Book Sense Top Ten pick. Her other fictio
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“You know, one meets so many people, the years pass and pass, but there are certain times, certain people— . . . They take up room. So much room. I was married to Howard for twenty-eight years and yet he made only a piddling dent in my memory. A little nick. But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan. . . .”
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“Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning.”
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