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Flashback Friday: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

January 21, 2011 – 9:39 pm

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by  Betty Smith
The title of this book refers to a persistent little tree that is growing through the concrete in the Brooklyn neighborhood that Francie is growing up in.  The tree comes around time and time again as an analogy to Francie’s life.  What is great about Francie is that [...]

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Flashback Friday: Of Mice and Men

November 19, 2010 – 6:35 am

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
I told you guys a couple of months a go that I am a crier when it comes to books.  To be honest, I’m kind of a crier when it comes to anything, but books are one of my favorite things to cry over. This is one that has [...]

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Flashback Friday: Little Women

May 14, 2010 – 6:46 am

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
I struggled with whether or not this should be included as a “flashback,” mostly because I make it a habit to read this one just about every time I fall into a book rut.  I do count this, though, as one of the books that really made me fall in [...]

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Review: Matchless

December 8, 2009 – 9:43 am

The Book: Matchless: An Illumination of Hans Christian Anderson’s Classic “The Little Match Girl”, by Gregory Maguire
The Story: The first part of this story introduces a young boy who is very poor.  He is struggling to help keep his stove lit at the house that he and his mother share.  It is important that it [...]

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