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2013 WW Groupies Reads: General
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March '13 Group Read: A Light Between Oceans
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I'm downloading this tonight. My mom read it and said it was excellent, so I'm looking forward to readying it!
I started reading it today and am really enjoying it so far!
How's everyone enjoying (or not) the book so far? I just started, but am already really enjoying the writing style and development of the characters.
I finished it last week and loved it! Enjoy the rest of your reading
Okay, I just finished it! Really beautifully written, you really got a nice grasp of all of the characters.That being said, next month can we pick a book that doesn't make me ball at the end?
*Bawling not balling...obviously that would have lead to an entirely different sort of ending...
Okay, I give up on grammar today......
I was just able to start this book over the weekend, but I've already made decent progress. I'll probably finish it within the next day or so, depending on how much I get done tonight. So far I'm really enjoying it. It sucked me right in from the beginning.
Jenn wrote: "*Bawling not balling...obviously that would have lead to an entirely different sort of ending..."LOL!!!!!
So I'm moving slow on our group reads (reading a couple books at the same time for challenges and what-not around the site) and I apologize. I'm about halfway through this one and....mmm, not quite as brilliant as I maybe thought it would be. There is a LOT of hype and good reviews behind this one. I have just been finding all of the technicalities of lighthouse life a little tedious, Isabel's character is fraying my nerves a little bit, and I want Tom to grow a pair. At the same time of course I'm torn because I have a heart. But still. I'm forging on and I do think that the writing is pretty good. Looking forward to seeing how things turn out!
Lindsay, Isabel's character frayed my nerves too!
Ashley wrote: "Lindsay, Isabel's character frayed my nerves too!"Ditto!
Synposis After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
M. L. Stedman’s mesmerizing, beautifully written novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel’s decision to keep this “gift from God.” And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another’s tragic loss.